With the long lasting winter, anti-slip rocks covered road here in my province cracked windshield are very very common, and usually when people are replacing it they don't want to spend the big bucks on a heated one. Maybe that's why you loosed the feature... But really, I have it on my '11 and I could be living without very easily. Pre-warming your car is the key during cold weather and if you know they are broadcasting freezing rain leave your wipers in the air (during parking ofc)
