A core API cleanup would be nice, but I think they have to worry about the transition. There would have to be a period when both APIs work so projects can trans

A core API cleanup would be nice, but I think they have to worry about the transition. There would have to be a period when both APIs work so projects can transition gracefully and servers can host code written for both. An abrupt change would probably hurt the new version, the old, or most likely both. If we could get on the same page what the new naming conventions and parameter orders are supposed to be, we could start to use a shim file on 5.x to prepare for 6.x.