I was responding to "it's kind of useless to be beating the language up upon every release". My comment applies to literally any programming language release or other product release notification; it makes sense for people to discuss the pros and cons of a product every time it comes up, because A) things change and B) it might be the first time that someone has come across the product.
If minor version release notes are on-topic enough to get posted every single time, I'm not really sure how an attached discussion of the product in question (possibly involving criticism) isn't.
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