You continually mentioned community, and seemed to portray yourself as an operator that refused to update to V3 to maintain your V2 community. I tried to empath

You continually mentioned community, and seemed to portray yourself as an operator that refused to update to V3 to maintain your V2 community. I tried to empathize with that. My bad. The 'friends along the way' was a cheeky comment referring to the communities you mentioned here and in other comments several times. It is certainly not the opposite of what you argued -- you are arguing for community and interoperability, and argued that Tor should maintain the insecure version for that interoperability. To wit, you said "What I want, what everyone in the tor project comment thread on the depreciation post wants, is for v2+v3.". This is equal to "Maintain the insecure version, do not deprecate it, because the community wants it". We're obviously of two separate minds here. I didn't mean to step on toes or seem disingenuous. Just frustrated when I see people complain about necessary security upgrades, which were known over a year in advance, in a security product.