Even if you don't consider them to be weasel words, it loses all emotional dynamic range that conveys the relative seriousness of the issue. When Linus is alrea

Even if you don't consider them to be weasel words, it loses all emotional dynamic range that conveys the relative seriousness of the issue. When Linus is already limited in his communication with contributers by the nature of email, how does he separate minor problems from major ones? That rewritten post reads like it could be for a small stylistic mistake of relative unimportance. These "Linus rants" come up rarely enough that we're able to flag what is important to him (such as don't break user-space) from the thousands of other disagreements he has with contributers.