I am not opposed to your solution, but sadly, I think it would be an extremely rare case. The ruby core team is very conservative with change, and I don't see s

I am not opposed to your solution, but sadly, I think it would be an extremely rare case. The ruby core team is very conservative with change, and I don't see some sweeping stdlib switch happening. James Edward Gray II was successful with ousting CSV for his improved implementation, and I think that's probably the way it will happen, if anything does happen. One library at a time.