> if slow compilation is such a pain point, I wonder why it takes seven years and counting to fix this bad decision I'm not sure it was a "bad decision" if it

> if slow compilation is such a pain point, I wonder why it takes seven years and counting to fix this bad decision I'm not sure it was a "bad decision" if it was something that can be addressed after the fact and allowed them to ship working software more quickly. The vast majority of the popular projects I am aware of have this kind of technical debt, likely due to survivorship bias. Project teams that refuse to take on technical debt are rarely successful enough to become popular.