Well, I support this practice, because two years is really too short for graduate students. In two years, you have to learn from your tutor, and you have to do your own experiments and finish your thesis writing. The difficulty of this paper is far higher than the requirement of undergraduate graduation thesis. It needs to be published successfully and must be the first or second author. Really, most people can't do it. Therefore, it is great news for graduate students to extend the academic system to three years, because graduate students don't have to take exams and have to prepare papers before starting school. To put it bluntly, you have written a thesis for two years. So extending it to three years will at least make it easier to write papers and have time to really learn knowledge.
One by one, this decision is great. Because graduate students are under too much pressure now, they should prepare their papers as soon as they come up. If I meet some schools with low requirements for graduate thesis, that's fine, but I don't have to waste so much time preparing my thesis, and I can spend most of my time reading books. However, some schools have higher requirements for graduate thesis, such as publishing it in well-known journals in the industry as the first author. This can't be done by ghostwriting, and you have to lose a lot of hair when you write it yourself. Because the reviewers of those publications are basically famous in the industry, people will see your paper at a glance, so they won't publish it directly to you. You have to start over.
Generally speaking, extending the academic system is in line with the current situation of junior college students in China. Because of the increasing pressure of study, the original two years are not enough, so it must be extended. Just as people eat more and more rice as they get older.