Generality creep

[Jonathan Marler]

On Thursday, 28 March 2019 at 18:30:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/28/19 2:12 PM, ag0aep6g wrote:
>> [...]
>
> We've been worrying too much about changing things.
>
> On any given issue, even those that widely agreed to be clowny, 
> two factions emerge. One advocates change and the other 
> advocates against code breakage. Interestingly the factions are 
> different depending on the issue, i.e. a given person may be in 
> favor of change in one matter and in favor of backwards 
> compatibility in another. At any rate, the result is years-long 
> stalemate and trench warfare on the slightest problems.
>
> [...]

This is a complete 180 from what you were saying a year ago. What 
happened?