Oh look, if you quote it the line of banners doesn't even fit right on forum ;P.
Seriously, there's already a two page topic about this in the BUG forum, because people couldn't fathom it being a planned update. It was an interesting idea. It didn't work. Hot-fix it back. After the start of an engagement it becomes impossible to play this game now. Once everything devolves into lines of banners I basically play on the minimap. Believe it or not, this substantially detracts from the quality of the graphics involved ;D.