The people defending the changes keep telling me that they're not a problem because they only do things we can already easily do.

That the changes create no effective change.

Okay, then why implement them, since they add complexity and decrease intercompatibility?

And why not offer solutions first, that are less dramatic, like a spell-check in the client, obvious annotations, or simply time-limited edits?

And why the rush on something so fundamental, sowing chaos, just as Nostr was really taking off and new development teams were starting up?