I believe in the recent Blues / Community council live chat, they said they are still thinking about it and if they want to remove them or not. At some point it was said it may end up in a situation like Algalon achieve where everyone needs to be under a certain item level to get them since there was so much backlash over the removal of these mounts.
Edit - Added source
19 minutes is where they asked about them.
Roughly 25minutes into this video is where I got the info for item level restriction.