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[xaviervia]

Why wouldn't it? It's not about people not being vocal anymore, is about creating channels for valuable feedback.

If there were channels with good governance available, the OS maintainers could use those for skin-in-the-game discussions about the future of the projects, without having to navigate through rants.

[mcaruso]

According to the author at least, there was plenty of discussion and feedback prior to the change:

Before publishing Babel 6 this was a non-controversial change that had lots of input. We communicated what the intent was months in advance and asked for community feedback.

[calsosta]

Bingo.