Why is `scope` planned for deprecation?

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 17 November 2014 at 11:43:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Remember that the alternative to zero-terminated strings at 
> that time was to have 2 string types, one with a one byte 
> length and one with a larger length. So I think C made the 
> right choice for it's time, to have a single string type 
> without a length.

Black hat hackers, virus and security tools vendors around the 
world rejoice of that decision...

It was anything but right.