In addition, most European communities did not sleep in a sukkah due to the cold – that’s a fact that the rema and other achronim make very clear. So while the rationale might change, we do have an outstanding precedent of yidden in chutz laaretz almost universally not sleeping in their sukkos. Once that stated rationale is minimized(depending on the year…there have been many years that i have not slept in a sukkah because i was cold), kt is a lot easier to justify continuing the practice of almost every European immigrant, including many esteemed rabbonim and rebbes who did not sleep in a sukkah in America. I’d hardly call that an abrogation; it’s very, very similar to the bach’s heter for chodosh. His rationale no longer applies, and it is very easy to be machmir on yoshon, but we are not mocheh on those who maintain the established – albeit hard to defend – minhag of being meikil.
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