When things change drastcally, the stress ends up on the hands of the maintainers and distributors - that's not good because there is already little disbalance

When things change drastcally, the stress ends up on the hands of the maintainers and distributors - that's not good because there is already little disbalance for OSS (compare with: the ratio of open "issues" vs "contributors"). When you change the rules at the top, everyone needs to comply or else...well, you need someone else to comply on your behalf - and forks happen!