OK, it's not the most important news you'll read today. Tales of its impending demotion elicited responses which were surprisingly emotional, as though changing its category would somehow change something truly important. In truth, it was never really in danger.
Astronomers tend to be somewhat conservative in changing traditional designations.
After all, we still use the constellations to designate different regions of the sky. Any real change in nomenclature is likely as rare as a blue moon. Speaking of which, March will be the second month this year with a blue moon. We called attention to two full moons in January, and it's going to happen again this month on the 2 nd and 31 st . However, this definition is rather new, and the occurrence is not all that rare.