[naikrovek]

You imagined that I was saying that the existing flag stuff in the standard library should be replaced, I never suggested that.

You can add better things without breaking compatibility promises. See: many, many features added since 1.0. New IP address types, slog, etc.

[jerf]

People are not looking to "add" to the library. They don't like it at all and want to completely stop it from doing what it does. There is no proposal process that is going to make them happy.

Fortunately, that is not a prerequisite for their happiness.