This goes pretty much against the philosophy of Stack Exchange. See the 'Respecting your own community' section here: stackoverflow.blog/2012/03/22/…

@Glorfindel I also cannot verify myself, but do check the second answer posted to the meta SO question you linked. Also as a circumstantial evidence, I personally keep seeing questions from 'new users' regularly with i.stack.imgur.com links, which seems too good to be a coincidence.

If I'm not awfully mistaken, new users (<10 rep) also can use the built-in image uploader. For new users, instead of an embedded image, only an i.stack.imgur.com link to the image would be added. Other users can then embed it easily. So no need to manually upload it to somewhere else first.

Is it the time to redefine “end of life”?

What are your counter-points against the closure and/or what are the reasons for reopening the question? Others with the same issue may want to engage with it is not a reasonable one imo. At the risk of sounding like a pedant, I would point out that Ask Ubuntu is not a (general discussion) forum. Note that even the OP seemingly didn't bother to attempt to reopen the question or take any other actions after the closure as they found out it's a bug-report (presumably because the OP is an experienced user here with high reputation points, so they know how the site works).