Who favors the current D1 situation?

[Saaa]

If all the changes are non breaking ones and if it doesn't take any 
significant time to port them, why then are people still against it?

Why does everybody keep pointing out that other things need fixing.
That is irrelevant, if porting the extra feature to D1 won't take any time.

I would applaud any feature coming to the stable D1 branch.
Everybody should be warned that D2 might break at any release, but D1 can 
safely be used and when lucky it will even be improved without breaking 
older D1 code (its like giving away presents).

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> I disagree that new features in D2 should be backported.
>
> I am a newbie to D and what I think D1 needs is for any bugs to be fixed 
> and for the documentation to be improved in that it needs to be more 
> expansive so that end users understand how to use the language. Right now 
> the docs are still very sparse and not easy to understand.
>
> Essentially D1 needs to be made as solid as possible for end users. 
> Keeping it in flux is not a good way to attract people to D. One always 
> needs a release of a language that people can use with confidence.
>
> When D2 is finally finished, it needs to be treated the same. Fix bugs and 
> update the documentation to be better, so it can be used more easily and 
> understood. Have all new features beyond it go in a new version.
>
> Endlessly making changes to a language for each and every release is not, 
> repeat not, a good way to get people to use that language and its 
> libraries in a serious way in order to write modules and applications.