User blog comment:Variklis/Thought a little speculation would be fun :p/@comment-27.33.95.191-20160804063734

It isn't the terraformER that is being removed, it is terraformING as a whole. You shouldn't even be able to dig sand afterwards. Loading the voxels to allow for terraforming of any kind takes a ton of resources, and the system is not used very much at all.

It will not be in the August update according to the Trello.