> But they will never do that because that would break existing systems that depend on the old behaviour. Which is an inevitability for anything that's been a

> But they will never do that because that would break existing systems that depend on the old behaviour. Which is an inevitability for anything that's been a dependency for long enough. Either you admit that things have to change and sometimes shit that's been secretly broken for years will have to change too, or you give in to the shit and admit that you can never solve any problems that made it to production. Both answers suck, but one is a lot more suck so I choose the "fix it anyways and if something else turns out to have depended on the brokeness then add that to the list of shit to fix" approach whenever possible.