As per the roadmap:
Website generated emails are now sent from the local MTA rather than being forwarded to the assigned email server for the website. This does not require the email role to be installed on the web server. If you have a global smart host configured, this will be applied automatically to all web servers where the email role is not installed.
Is this going to be optional. There can be reasons why this is kept on some servers but not on others and it would be nice to have an option on a per server basis instead of having this changed and not dictated.