Yeah I really don't understand the anti-GET-body argument.

"Using GET with a body isn't in the spec, WAFs and webservers that haven't been updated might reject it!"

Ok, QUERY wasn't in the spec when those were written either. What do you expect those appliances to do with a totally unknown verb?

It's a welcome addition but the new method is pure marketing. There's no reason the update couldn't have been to expand GET instead of add support for QUERY.