Clemens Buchacher [off-list ref] writes:
There is something wrong with weighting a UI improvement against
convenient use in scripts. If that were the issue, then ...
But that is not the issue. Nobody said anything about convenience for
script writers.
I am talking about regressions to already written long time ago and used
by many people _without_ them having to worry about how it internally
works. By switching the default, you are suddenly making them worry about
it again.