Ooh, Frenchie, thank you for this link! I only just stumbled onto the fact of this "change in the rules" a couple days ago - and on the Service Public site, they only directed you to the text of the new law and the arreté (both of which are impossible to understand).

As with most changes to the procedures here in France, it is going to take a while to filter this information out to the various branches of government and to the world. When they changed the process so that the prefectures no longer issue a titre de séjour to EU nationals, banks and even some mairies continued to ask people for their cartes de séjour, and acted skeptical when told that the préfecture wasn't issuing them any more.

It's even possible that some of the consulates won't be up to date with the new procedures for a few months (certainly not until after the summer vacations).
Cheers,
Bev