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"Trusting the community to do the right thing is better than handicapping your users."

And the "community" in question had repeatedly and grossly demonstrated itself to be unworthy of such trust.

Crockford was not hypothesizing that this might happen, he'd seen it. Repeatedly. If you want to argue against it even so, fine, but bear in mind that is what you are arguing against, real pain that real people experienced, not mere possibilities.