[lonelappde]

Hyrum's Law challenges that supposed wisdom.

https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

Postel's Law creates debt that we pay interest on forever

Since Hyrum's law is a naturalist observation and Postel's Law is a suggestion, Hyrum's law is a more definitive truth.

[m463]

I can see that too. You end up possibly supporting a bug-compatible interface or other nonsense.

Amusing but unrelated I looked to see if that law was on wikipedia and clicked on this thinking it might be another spelling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yhprum%27s_law