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The arguments against ossification are almost entirely around new stuff that devs want to build.

If that's the priority, why don't you build it on Liquid or Lightning or some other place that's not the base layer? Liquid in particular has a very similar system as L1 and on testnet, they have Simplicity enabled, which should get you pretty much any primitive you want that's not Turing complete. If your idea is so great, why don't you show the benefits of your idea by building elsewhere? Your argument for why you want a soft fork would be a lot better received if you showed evidence that the thing you want to build actually has a robust market.

If the reason why you won't build on another layer is that it's too cumbersome or difficult, then I have zero sympathy for your plight.
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Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago 💬 3

Devs are dangerous to stuff that already works. Almost every (maybe every) program or website that I initially liked has been turned into unusable junk by all the additional features they've added over time.

As they say in engineering (real engineering): "don't fix what ain't broken."

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, gnome 4 is a great example of this

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cheesypleb 1y ago

Exactly, feature creep has ruined so many great pieces of software. Developers like to develop. It's not in their nature to say 'the is feature complete, let's not break it'. I say this as a developer.

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Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Something I've been curious about - do devs have to report to the typical moronic middle managers that have inserted themselves into seemingly every industry? Cuz I could totally understand if managers are orchestrating the creeping enshitification of software.