[rleigh]

I don't believe it is following the high-level direction at all. It's completely counter to it.

Dropping existing working support is deliberately and intentionally stopping alternatives from working. Refusing to consider help from others to maintain this support is deliberately and intentionally preventing alternatives from being supported.

[capableweb]

Seems you're right, according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24493214 (and https://bugs.debian.org/746715) which states "That includes merging reasonable contributions, and not reverting existing support without a compelling reason" which I missed when first reading about it. Thanks :)