One thing to remember is that a lot of people use the testing distribution so they would have seen it before the Debian 8 release changed the default. The debat

One thing to remember is that a lot of people use the testing distribution so they would have seen it before the Debian 8 release changed the default. The debate in the community took ages but one factor in concluding it was that people were using it for years without it being anything like the more hyperbolic predictions some opponents made.