It is still a choice you make, do you want to be nice and do everything anyone asks of you ? Or stick to your principles and build only what you think is right?

It is still a choice you make, do you want to be nice and do everything anyone asks of you ? Or stick to your principles and build only what you think is right? Developers are social creatures like anyone else and like validation and recognition from peers, that is understandable but not an excuse. It is no different from being able to say no when your boss ask you to build something you don't believe in or is against your morals, it is tough but our choice nonetheless. Their choice then to support this feature, and now to patch it. They could have no either time, no point in complaining about it after making the choice.