I bring this up frequently with Evernote. I use the "create date" to redate statements, tax records etc., sometimes year old things I've scanned. I use it for historical records, for instance change grandmother's birth certificate to 19c. It was very easy in what they now call "Evernote Legacy" to use the keyboard, now have to use that dratted calendar. Sometimes, with the calendar, you can scroll through the years, sometimes scroll doesn't work.
It doesn't make sense to me to remove features.