I'm glad they dropped that schedule. It probably was a good idea at the start, but to keep it up year in and out got -- well, fill in your own word*. (That's when I heard about it, when it first started.) Does it matter that you don't have to be "live" with the rovers (well, with the time delay), so long as you tell it what to do and come back the next day to see if the task is done? How autonomous are they?
It'll be interesting to see how "layered" Mars ends up being. Judging by a recent Astronomy Pics of the Day
here there's a lot to look at.
*My cat has a similar (but opposite) schedule where feeding time is always at least one to two hours ahead of local time, and this is after years of training her that dinner is 6:30pm. What world is she from?