@AnimalHungry
As @rontalley said, they made it a whole lot harder to do this.
See this thread: New SmartThings Alexa skill (2020)
They still haven’t paused the transition. They could pause the transition, give back the old echo skill, and leave echo speaks until the problem is solved. What’s going to happen is that the smartthings classic skill will be removed, and all the people with working announcements will now have non working automations. echo speaks will have gone, and the automations will not work whatsoever.