> Personally I think that was the wrong tradeoff; there is never a better time to make a breaking change than right now. The cost only ever increases with time.

> Personally I think that was the wrong tradeoff; there is never a better time to make a breaking change than right now. The cost only ever increases with time. Yes, but from a marketing perspective breaking with the past is usually not desired. Especially if your product is currently being adopted and is already partially adopted in both hardware and software (which might have been the case when they implemented generics?).