Fair point, although I’d suggest that many programs already treat LF as NL (e.g....

deltaknight 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

Fair point, although I’d suggest that many programs already treat LF as NL (e.g. unix text files), so this understanding of the meaning of LF already exists in the world. If you’re writing anything generic/cross-platform, you have to be able to treat LF as NL. So there isn’t really a change to be made here.