"All's well that ends well" neglects the costs to the community of bad decisions. It also encourages people to think that those decisions must not have been ver

"All's well that ends well" neglects the costs to the community of bad decisions. It also encourages people to think that those decisions must not have been very bad, and not learn from those mistakes. You can see that at work in the responses here. "And I still feel it was the right move. Somehow Python is even more relevant today than it was when this painful process began." I.e. success is thought to justify every decision made along the way. I see this fallacy at work in Linux too. "Linux is successful, therefore haphazard CI and using email to track bugs and patches must be a fine way to operate".