CHANGELOG  •  VERSION 0.2.2

What's new

UVs and mesh data are kept

UV maps, seams, sharp edges, creases, bevel weights, material slots, color attributes and custom attributes
now survive the cleanup.

Vertex groups and shape keys

Meshes that carry them are kept too. They go through a slower path, so expect a longer wait on heavy meshes.

Loops that stayed now go

Gentle waves, cylinders and subdivided boxes kept loops that were well under Max angle.
They are now removed as expected.

Keep subsurf loops

Benefits from the same fix: support loops are kept, extra loops around them are removed.

Live tweaking stays instant

Dragging a value in the operator panel is as fast as before, and faster on cylinder-like shapes.

Update

Install the new remove_loops.zip over the old one and restart Blender.