alt Hacker NewsSure, if you ignore the massive difference in the rate such changes are happening at and that this new api is strictly better than the previous one, so there's no two ways that need to be decided between but rather the new go-to and the old-to-be-moved-away-from option, so there's no cognitive load here at all.
So yeah, if you ignore most of what matters, everything is the same.
I bet if I was unemployed enough go through python mails, I would find a similar argument.
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