Nodeapi settings hook is broken

I have noticed this morning that hook_nodeapi is no longer called by $node as first argument as first setting, but only $type. I documented this in the handbook, 'cos I have thought this is well thought out decision which is executed through the core. But only node.module is updated, comment and upload is broken and every node module out there. I know we do not have backwards compatibility. I think it would be better to introduce a new hook for this. But, as we are in feature freeze, I doubt any of this shall happen. Instead, for now let's change the behaviour back.