[mynegation]

It’s been 20 years since I left Emacs, but I understand that this change is pretty disruptive. What I do not understand is why Emacs that prides itself in being the “kitchen sink” did not add an option to revert to the old behaviour.

[tsimionescu]

They are adding it, most likely. The author of this article is just mad that they didn't accept their patch (which added a flag but also did away with all the other improvements).