No more Yahoo! Helper

What happened to the Yahoo! Helper in the Yahoo! Messenger? with voice?(version 7).

I used to try out the hidden smiley codes with the Yahoo! Helper when I was not sure, it was useful to me I don't know why they removed it?? Yahoo! is trying as hard as possible to look exactly like Msn messenger. Or maybe they just hired a bunch of people who used to work for Microsoft on Msn messenger. Now I don't mind them imitating all the good things about Msn messenger but -and it's a big BUT- it seems they are mostly imitating the looks and appearance of the Msn messenger but not the functionalities. At least not the good ones. Even I have things that "I" like about Msn messenger like the fact that you can invite other people to join a conversation you are having with someone without having to open a "conference" window, now that's useful! Oh yes and they do have archive search. It does not seem like the people at Yahoo! Messenger are interested in imitating any of that, no, they seem to be content with imitating the look and feel only... too bad for us users...