D has become unbearable and it needs to stop

[FeepingCreature]

On Friday, 9 June 2023 at 09:22:10 UTC, GrimMaple wrote:
> I disagree with this statement, and I see a lot of people 
> agreeing with my disagreement :)
> LTS is LTS for a reason, meaning that 3rdparty will (ideally) 
> only target LTS, without having to target unpredictable 
> compiler. I don't understand how this is going to be worse for 
> 3rd party, I only see wins. Have you read the thread btw?  I 
> already posted an example 
> (https://github.com/FreeSlave/icontheme/issues/2) where one 
> person outright __refused__ to do anything about their broken 
> code. I'll copy-paste the reasoning (it's about deprecated 
> alias this):
>
How would LTS help? That only means they'll end up stuck at an 
old LTS version. It buys you a year, and then it breaks anyway.

You'd have to postulate a person who is okay with fixing *more* 
breaking changes, so long as it's more rarely. I'm skeptical.