It's not like my changes were done in secret.
They weren't done in secret, but many of them were just commits with no discussion on the list.
As long as the change hasn't been released, it's up for discussion. And it's much easier to discuss code that was committed than ideas in the air. When I've committed changes I thought might be controversial, I've always discussed them on the list, and indeed have backed out many of them before release (or sometimes, after release, because complaints only came afterwards).
I did my best to anticipate issues, but I often fail, and I can't read minds. Complaints that come a year later are a year late.
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