[yaantc]

The article is just his author view. Please read the emacs mailing list threads to get the full picture.

GP is correct, and this is quite normal: some people using Emacs master will not follow all the mailing list discussions and commits. So they will notice a change only after it is merged. Nothing wrong with this, and nothing wrong with being unhappy about such a change. What's wrong in my book is the nature of the reaction show in this article (see my comment in reply to @tarsius).

[kazinator]

Then there are people who don't follow master.

Some people only pick up releases, including test releases.

Some people only work with final releases.

All those people could find something suddenly not working well.

[Kalq]

If you are this hypersensitive to change, it behooves you stay on a stable release and only upgrade after you've read the CHANGELOG and NEWS files.

[kazinator]

Someone hypersensitive to changes track changes as early as possible, and complain quickly and loudly.

Those who are not sensitive changes just use whatever Ubuntu (or whatever) provides and are unconcerned with the development.