For a project that keeps being maintained, you want maintainable code that isn't a burden to work with. That's their rationale according to the PR. It's not tha

For a project that keeps being maintained, you want maintainable code that isn't a burden to work with. That's their rationale according to the PR. It's not that the code is bad, but it's more pedestrian than directly writing C++, so can lower the motivation of the involved people to actually work on the code and implement the things they want to implement.