I feel it's a bit unfair to criticise changes in a product at the leading edge of the most dynamic field of software. It's also slightly ungrateful for such a v

I feel it's a bit unfair to criticise changes in a product at the leading edge of the most dynamic field of software. It's also slightly ungrateful for such a valuable addition to OSS–and I say that even though I tend to consider this argument overused. But mostly I don't believe such criticism has much of chance of changing anything: The creators are already the most qualified you could have working on it, and it's unlikely they intentionally made mistakes in the early rounds of API design. Maybe it would have helped to spend a few more weeks on specifications rather than coding but, again, I wouldn't feel very comfortable second-guessing Google's project management. I think the most likely outcome if such complaints start to pile up would be future projects just remaining proprietary, either longer, of completely.