The Android team did need to be told. There was a lot of internal dev pressure to abandon backwards compat (by which I actually mean reproducing bugs) even betw

The Android team did need to be told. There was a lot of internal dev pressure to abandon backwards compat (by which I actually mean reproducing bugs) even between immediate revisions. At one point their (at the time brilliant) dev relations baited me into telling them “if the targetSdk setting isn’t for this exact problem then what is it for?” and never heard of them thinking of making such changes again. The backstory was one product I had become responsible for was reliant on a bug in the inheritance implementation of the earlier VMs. I was stunned to say the least. That product happened to be FIFA which made my case somewhat easier.