No you don’t. GPIO has not yet been removed, that won’t happen for 4 months. In those 4 months you have plenty of time to switch to the custom component which brings back that core functionality. (EDIT: as per Francis’ comment below, this shouldn’t even be needed)
Also, if you want to keep complaining about something that has already been resolved, please do it here.
Also, since you are frustrated and this will help…
Is actually Zigbee Home Automation 