If you're actually migrating databases around (which is a bad practice to begin with)
How is developing locally and migrating your database to a dev or production server bad practice?
So it seems people with this workflow are the ones that are going to get screwed.
I think they forgot this common scenario when applying this update.
I think it's pretty common practice to install Wordpress locally when you begin working on a new site, and then move everything to a dev or production server once the time comes.