Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
unnecessary and noncontributory.
Like the vast majority of posts on this forum, you mean? At least that one was entertaining.

"regardless of the reasoning..." = don't care what you said, then additional paragraph showing they don't understand the change.
You're picking on nothing. First, they acknowledge that the situation sucks from a coding perspective. But the fact the devs had a reason to make that change doesn't stop people from hating on it, nor should it because it's unrelated. The devs doing something doesn't mean we need to accept it and feel good about it, which is where you're again going into white knight territory.

Calling the dev team "sad"
No, they called the situation sad, maybe you're the one who's not reading carefully. As someone who's worked with impossible systems before, where I had to write code I wasn't satisfied with because there was a deadline coming and not enough time to do it the right way, yeah, it's a sad situation to be in, as basically every single person in this thread has acknowledged in regards to the 1.0 legacy code. It doesn't mean we have to accept it.

The devs are not infallible. People are not obligated to approve of what they do. And you're certainly not a community moderator to be tearing into basically every person in this thread for the crime of not having the same opinion as yours.