They shouldn't have force it unto consumers. It was an unpopular add-on before that, and after the XBone reveal, it was despised even more. The tragic thing about it isthat, because Kineckt was going to be mandatory, therewere a couple developers working on kineckt related projects, but they abandoned those when the add-on was disbundled. So no support anyway. They should have followed Sony. How many PSMove titles are coming for PS4? Exactly.
Also, the wiimote hasn't really died. Almost all WiiU games that can use multiple controllers can use the wiimote. The thing is just to widespread to abandon.