If you're one of the few people using Kinect gestures on your Xbox One, we have some bad news: the feature is going away.

In a recent interview with Windows Central, Microsoft's Mike Ybarra, who leads the team behind the new Xbox One experience launching Nov. 12, suggested that demand for Kinect gestures didn't justify the investment needed to support them.

"When we looked at the new Xbox One experience we wanted to prioritize features that customers were asking for, plus areas of improvement from the existing Xbox One UI," Ybarra explained. "Then, we wanted to look at the use-case model of features that take a lot of investment and say, 'is it worth continuing to invest in that area?'"

Turns out, Kinect gestures just didn't make the cut.

"With gestures, the reality was the usage was very, very low," he said. "So for now, we've cut that from the New Xbox One Experience. So when we launch on the 12th, they won't be in the product. We'll continue to monitor and listen to feedback to see if people want them in."

So, if you want them back, you better let Ybarra and his team know. In our May 2014 Xbox One review, PCMag's Will Greenwald noted that "hand gestures still feel generally clunky, and I couldn't get the Kinect to consistently detect my hands or let me perform functions like switching between the home screen and the full-screen view of the active program."

He added that the Kinect is good at ignoring false gestures, so he "had no problem forgetting that the unreliable motion controls were even an option." In summary, gestures were "a very minor part of the Kinect experience, replaced instead by the vastly superior voice controls," Greenwald added.

Meanwhile, tomorrow's big Xbox One update will bring a "complete redesign built on the cornerstone of Windows 10," offering "the fastest and most social Xbox experience ever," Microsoft has said. One long-awaited feature launching as part of the update is backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games.