The people who have to change their code to accept the changes lose. For Django the change was much simpler because it was mostly a docs/tests change. However,

The people who have to change their code to accept the changes lose. For Django the change was much simpler because it was mostly a docs/tests change. However, here, we'd have to change Redis' API (or include more than one way to do the same thing). Raising the point is fine. Discussion is important. But making the change, in this case, has some clear downsides that antirez has carefully weighed against the pros.