There seems to be major lack of communication in the threads as evidenced by Tom Lane's "I never objected to the idea of being able to disable ALTER SYSTEM" I

There seems to be major lack of communication in the threads as evidenced by Tom Lane's "I never objected to the idea of being able to disable ALTER SYSTEM" I guess a technical understanding of Postgresql leads to different thoughts than your average working dev/devops/ops person. Which, TBF characterizes a lot of tech discussions.