Can we PLEASE stop castling by clicking the rook?

This feature was supposed to be good at first. It sorta saves energy when you are exhausted. You guy should be more careful. Well lucky for u, chess.com “fortunately “ stopped this.

It doesn't save energy. You don't have to move the mouse so far if you click on the target square for the king. If you're really exhausted, the effort of pushing the mouse the extra square or two could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Totally agree with OP. Who in his right mind would expect clicking on a rook to castle the king? Don't know if it was documented.

I think it has been fixed. When I enter the site, I can see a notification of this warning: you can no longer castle by moving the king to the rook and you an do it by clicking 2 squares left or right. At the first, i didn't know what was the reason. Now, I got it.

I want the feature back , iplay using the click method and its annoying to drag just to castle

It's a king move. Click on the king and the square the king moves to and it works. You don't have to move your mouse so far.

What could be more annoying than clicking on one piece and finding you've made a move with a different piece?

It is not hard to click the king and then the square 2 spaces next to it...

I've been playing for years by clicking the king and then the rook, and when that didn't work, I clicked again (and maybe again?), then clicked the square I wanted to move the king to to castle, to see if that worked, and it moved the rook there, because I'd accidentally switched the focus to the rook in my attempts to castle. This is so frustrating.
Why the heck can't it just be an option? Keep the years-old behavior as the default, and have an option for people who don't like it? As a programmer, this feels 1) extremely easy to write, and 2) extremely easy to support multiple castling styles. I get that sometimes we want there to be just one right way to do things, and it's not worth the effort to support more than one, but for something so fundamental, and so easy to support, it seems so lazy and user-antagonistic to change the behavior and not even have an option to stick with the old behavior. Due to muscle memory, I think the defaults should rarely if ever change, but I'm strongly in favor of adding options to move in different ways according to user preference.