Again, I don't see how waiting in two long lines (and we waited for 20 minutes at the ice cream place before finding out they don't do that anymore) is "beating the system."
As someone else pointed out, how is stuffing a scoop of ice cream between two cookies that much more labor intensive then balancing the scoop on a pointed cone? They still have all the flavors at the ice cream place. They'll put any flavor on a cone or in a cup with sprinkles, sauce, whipped cream etc, but putting it between a couple of cookies was too costly?
FTR, the point of my post was to give people a heads up because many of us here have looked forward to this snack and I don't want others to waste their time in line to find out they don't have it anymore. Time is money at WDW.
LIke I said, if waiting around in two long lines just to have an ice cream sandwiich is your idea of good time, then go for it.