The community is requesting restoration of article creation to unregistered editors  

This has been discussed in various places and consensus has been achieved in each.

The relevant parts of the latest discussion this week at User talk:Jimbo Wales are as follows:

When they search a topic and there's no article let the comment be

You may create the page "X" but consider checking the search result below to see whether the topic is already covered ...

The proposal to allow article creation by unregistered editors within pending changes has been discussed at the Village Pump and in a thread here which was archived yesterday morning ...

Pending changes reviewers do not fret - any autoconfirmed editor will be able to review these articles - the first edit by an autoconfirmed editor (whether pending changes reviewer or not) will automatically remove the article from pending changes so that the content becomes visible to the general public.

Please ask the developers to implement the change. 109.156.12.254