My issue isn't that they no longer have political cartoons, it's why they made the decision to remove them. And to be fair, we don't know yet. I haven't found an official statement from the NYT on this; I've only seen tweets and this guy's piece on it.
There is no ‘official’ Statement because this isn’t a big deal. This is in the realm of deciding what freelances to go with given budgets and other factors.
To this guy, this decision is clearly significant. For someone at NYT it was just another Tuesday.
I really don’t think this is a big deal.
If The New Yorker or sone other publication did, then maybe.