Having followed the promise cancellation proposal pretty closely, especially when it came to a close, it sounded more like he got sick of the pushback (specific

Having followed the promise cancellation proposal pretty closely, especially when it came to a close, it sounded more like he got sick of the pushback (specifically mentioning push back internally at Google) if my memory serves. I won't pretend to speak for him, but I don't recall him withdrawing the proposal because he didn't think his solution was correct. He just didn't want to deal with the detractors anymore. Of course, it was a solution to a problem he created, so... (to be fair, the JavaScript world was very different then than it is now, in the same way ES6 classes would probably work very differently if they were designed today)