Meaningful progress is progress for the most people. To achieve that, it's often most effective to create coalitions to help you achieve that progress in areas you yourself cannot. This is where collaboration and standards come in.

What's going on now is a request for collaboration. It has been somewhat de-railed, but I have hope. Barring consensus, we feel the risks are outweighed by the gains for developers in having changed things in the bit of the world our codebase addresses.

Perhaps you weren't looking for a real answer, but there's one anyway.