Contradictory justification for status quo

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/26/2015 6:58 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I should add, however, that effort in and by itself does not warrant approval
> per se. Labor is a prerequisite of any good accomplishment, but is not all
> that's needed.

Yeah, that's always a problem. Ideally, how much work someone put into a 
proposal should have nothing to do with whether it is incorporated or not. But 
being human, we feel a tug to incorporate something because someone expended 
much effort on it. It's always much harder to turn them down.