[lelanthran]

> Thierry started working on a new improvement to create a flag that keeps both all of his new work, but allows the previous workflow too (particularly, removing the extra RET, which was ultimately a side effect, not the main point). The patch missed the mark, but it is still being worked on.

I think that if the author of this rant did not come along and rant, there would be no "but is still being worked on" done. My reading is that the maintainer (Theirry) was happy with the extra RET.

NOW it is getting worked on because of the dogged and emotional criticism by the rant's author, prior to him writing his rant.

If he didn't make such an emotionally charged and disruptive arguments and patches, the rest of us poor Emacs users would have only found out about the broken workflow (extra RET) once the bug was fully baked in, requiring waiting for the next release in order to get a fix.