[Dylan16807]

He made changes that were based on design goals. He simplified a few parts, and removed comments with the explicitly stated goal of avoiding parsing directives.

We can say the underlying idea of taking javascript's object syntax was a discovery, but he refined it between discovery and release.

[inopinatus]

This seems to merely be applying Saint-Exupéry's rule as an editor, which is a matter of baseline competence, and hardly seems worthy of description as a goal of any sort.