Unity walks back most of their new policy changes: An open letter to our community | Unity Blog

... for now. They'll inevitably try this again the moment they think they won't experience such blow back.

The only way to truly change direction away from stuff like this is to change leadership. They currently have someone from EA - "let's introduce predatory micro transactions to fucking everything", "it's just a sense of pride and accomplishment" EA - at the helm. It will surface again.