The main reason for this still being true was screen-scraping bots (together with $wgHtml5).
For some reason when $wgHtml5 was finally enabled we forgot to also get rid of wgWellFormedXml=true.
We should disable it by default for the same reason we now enable wgHtml5 by default.
This is mainly bugging because of the "&&" sign we have as of recently in the default html output, which, due to wgWellFormedXml, causes an ugly CDATA section.
Version: 1.22.0
Severity: normal