[sandywaffles]

> [..] a workflow they have been optimizing for decades.

it sounds the opposite of optimized to me. Unless we're optimizing for something other than developer experience and efficiency?

[bombcar]

Once you realize the kernel workflow is optimized for Linus’s (and a few other top honchos) efficiency it all begins to make sense.

Any change introduces anomalies and those cause all sorts of hell.

[zymhan]

> Unless we're optimizing for something other than developer experience and efficiency?

It's almost like there are more important goals wrt software development.