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by azernik 1722 days ago
It's not about "lower".

We can, and do, make massive , non-backwards-compatible changes in layers 1 and 2 every few years and no one is the wiser. Layer 3 is special. It makes that flexibility in all the other layers possible, but keeps none for itself.

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mind you though, that layer 3 and 4 are somewhat interlinked.