[NooneAtAll3]

I feel like "feature/model freeze" may be justified

just call it something like "[month][year]edition" and work on next release

users spend effort arriving to narrow peak of performace, but every change keeps moving the peak sideways

[muyuu]

The changes to reduce inference costs are intentional. Last thing you're going to do is have users linger on an older version that spends much more. This is essentially what's going on with layers upon layers of social engineering on top of it.