Calendar Date Picker for birthday birth date degrades usability

Until receently the birthday birth date field was a series of drop downs for month, day and year. It is now a calendar date picker.

A date picker is not the best input UI for dates that people know, like their birthday. Especially this execution in which the user is most likely to choose the month and day, then realize they need to pick the year, which can cause the month and day they have selected to be lost.

At the very least the date input ui should be selectable as it is with drupal cck date fields.