I’m with you, but if you’re maintaining a massively popular open source library, where backwards compatibility is expected, you’re not going to remove features

I’m with you, but if you’re maintaining a massively popular open source library, where backwards compatibility is expected, you’re not going to remove features without careful consideration. For an important bug fix, it probably does make more sense to just fix it without breaking anything first, then talk about a more careful deprecation/removal plan.