Why remove pressing X to clear hot bar?

I haven’t played minecraft in a while and was in a creative world, confused on why X wouldn’t clear my hotbar, I look it up to find out it’s been removed in a recent update! I don’t think it was a good idea. It was a very convenient control while you are in creative, if you have a bunch of junk you want out of your hotbar. I understand that people may have cleared their hotbar on accident, or cleared things they didn’t want to, but I don’t think it should have been removed! Instead I think they should add a switch in settings for if you want it on or not because let’s face it, who on controller wants to go out and type /clear, when we could easily be pressing X. Please add this back in Mojang!!