This U menu will clearly continue being updated. I’m all for, as it will help new/occasional players who feel daunted to remember 700 different commands just to get around.
With that, I can see the appeal/need for some commands to remain off so that the player base is nudged into using the new menu. I think /phone and related commands like /drop(store)body are great example, because they correspond to actions/things your character is interacting with. By all means I’d prefer UI stuff like the WI menu for picking people up and the U menu for dropping tbh, it feels a bit more realistic for me than feeling like Neo by prepping a bunch of slash commands…
I think they should not be the essential commands that hundreds/thousands of players have grown accustomed to. The basic things like /stats, /salary, /vol should be kept alongside their addition to the U menu. This is because when I type stats, it’s not entirely expected that my character is “doing” anything, it’s more so a meta-action (not OOC of course).
TLDR I’m in favor of keeping commands that don’t imply in-game action/interaction, while purging others that have the ability to have richer engagement with in-game by using different UI elements.