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by Mithaldu 3899 days ago
There's a bit of context that goes along with this, but in short the above quote is ridiculous, because they're throwing up a slippery slope argument in response to the smallest and most reasonable request, in a situation where there is no "right thing", since the software serves different people in different ways and making one way that serves all equally well is impossible, and hard-coding one locks out one user base. This is made worse by them locking out previous users with their changes by disabling usage patterns they previously provided.