come to think of it you might be right Eric, they might bring back the LDA so they can use the 33% LDL during Long-Form
I don't think they will go back to the taller LDL because it will mess up the lower thirds on the taped programming that are formatted for the shorter LDL and they would have to shrink the video.
Plus for me I felt it made the video area to small.
What I would like for them to do is letterbox all live programming on the SD feed so they can format the maps and graphics for 16:9.