Part of the argument identifies a harm to making changes to git, which is true for any changes to git that break existing documentation. I would hope that git m

Part of the argument identifies a harm to making changes to git, which is true for any changes to git that break existing documentation. I would hope that git maintainers are considering that when deciding about making any changes. But the other part of the argument is that the benefit is too small (or nonexistant) to outweigh the harm, which is not true in all cases.