Rather D1 then D2

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:22:31 UTC, Russel Winder 
wrote:
> This is just so reminiscent of the Python 2 / Python 3 fiasco.
>
> Python 3 was clearly an improvement over Python 2, but the way 
> in which the changes came to the community caused a violent 
> split. Even after many years, there are those for whom Python 3 
> is anathema and not to be used.
>
> [...]

Have you followed the discussion of Jonathan on @implicit?
It seems that D2 is going in the opposite direction: more cruft 
is being added, for sake of (dubious) compatibility.