Vedic Knowledge Sharing was restrictd because people feared the misuse of knowledge in unqualified hands - but it finally lead to "Knowledge Limitation" and finally resulted in Extinction ... if we have lost 99% our Vedic Heritage its because of People who never documented them and we are watching the Scientists reinvent everything. In fact this also has enabled the Leftists to question the credibility of Vedas (Of course no one takes them seriously, thats a different issue)
today's situation is different .. Knwoledge is there to be shared and improved. Unless there is a scope of learn without bounds there is no chance of Vedic scripts surviving.
for Instance, I am not that good at sanskrit( Rather Not at all good inspite of learning it), so I would prefer to read the Scriptures in English, whats wrong with that?