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[coldtea]

>Completely understandable. This decision was expected to be polarizing.

The project being OK with polarizing decisions (instead of listening to the community and discussing it) is the dealbreaker for me.

It's OK to build opinionated software, but not at such basic level.

[tps5 → coldtea]

Of course it's always okay to build opinionated software at any level. If you don't like, don't use it.

[y7 → coldtea]

Doesn't being opinionated necessarily preclude listening to a community and following consensus?

[coldtea → y7]

No. Rails is opinionated but also had great community driven improvements.