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Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm> writes:

> I keep hearing this argument, and I'm even more surprised to hear it
> right after a major release. If not now then when's a good time for
> cleaning up confusing inconsistencies?

Actually, after a major release is the worst time to push for such an
agenda.

Especially when that release burned the maintainer with numerous complains
against a major change in it, that has been advertised for a long time,
which was pushed by other people for no good reason other than "such a
clean-up would make things much tidier".

Grrr ;-).