[eviks]

> If I want the old solutions, that's what versioning is for. I'll use the old version.

And you'll miss all the stuff you do not want the old solution for. And all the old bugs

> faced with a dozen functions that all have similar but increasingly long names and do very similar things with subtle but likely important differences.

Unless all the old versions are marked add old/deprecated and can be hidden from your view. Then you only care about the old stuff if you used it before and don't want to change