Issues with RBF no longer being toggleable

[ArmchairCryptologist]

I understand that the Replace-By-Fee toggle was intentionally removed from Electrum 4.4, but this is pretty much a deal breaker. Regardless of the intentions of the update and whether or not "non-replaceable" transactions are in fact replaceable or not, that doesn't change the fact that major payment providers treat RBFed and non-RBFed transactions differently, which means that if you still want to keep using them you simply cannot upgrade to 4.4.

Additionally it is not mentioned in the update notes that I can see. Furthermore it is not possible to simply downgrade, since Electrum 4.4 silently upgrades wallets to a format that can no longer be accessed by 4.3 and earlier, which makes it a pretty nasty trap overall, since you'd have to revert the wallet from a backup or at worst restore it from a seed, losing all the transaction descriptions in the process.

Please revert this change, or at least make it a config file option if you don't want to "clutter" the UI.

[ecdsa]

It is not easy to make it a config option, because we actually use the RBF flag as a semaphone, in order to prevent malleating channel funding transactions from other instances of Electrum. This means that if we added a "disable RBF" option, we would actually have to disable RBF on all transactions. This would likely cause more support requests than what we see now.

[PTBYSR]

So what is the work around?