What's wrong with stability, LTS, and not fixing bugs for "compatibility".

[Walter Bright]

On 10/9/2020 3:58 AM, FeepingCreature wrote:
> This is the core point - we don't see our code as "in maintenance mode". We want 
> to write new code, add new features - and nothing is more frustrating than 
> spending days, paid for by the company, to reduce a bug and find out it was 
> deliberately left unfixed, or that the D project left you to sink weeks of 
> effort into a barely-maintained semi-legacy part of the language that you now 
> have to refactor your way out of, cough std.json cough.

std.json is still in Phobos, and still passes its unittests. I do not understand 
what the issue is with it - if you're using it, and it hasn't changed, why do 
you have to refactor out of it?