negative means exactly removing something
it is a bad policy in software development, throws everyone off because sometimes even the feature you thought was stupid was used by a small minority who get very mad
add, never subtract, just make better features. this is how it can be that code written in #golang 12 years ago still compiles
the devs of go are the most wise computer programmers in the entire industry, not surprising when the most senior in charge invented the precursor to C and another built the operating system that basically everything now is (ken thompson and rob pike) they had decades of experience to learn this stuff and tehy are salty bastards about it for good reason, this modern "upgrade every other day" shit is so toxic to user experience, eventually they burn their entire loyal userbase