Why they are removing the old link, for me its more comfortable to access my wallet using the old link rather than the new one. I guess i will need some extra time to familiarize myself using the new MEW.
Change is constant and they have made the site newer and with more features for the newer version. I have used the new version when its out and unfamiliar to me.
But the new version still has the feature to access the old wallets that were created before. They still have the mnemonic phrase and private key recovery with the keystore file. So, those that forgot to access and take their balance through their private keys, there's still a way to retrieve it.
You can familiarize it easily.