Comment by Guvante

You paint the sponsors in an unnecessarily negative light here.

They want to fund code they will use and that requires updating versions to be doable for like a million not twenty million.

Everyone loses site of the massive sizes of the codebases involved. When your codebase is measured in millions LoC minor breaks can be devastating.

Minor steps are fine and appreciated but "rip off the bandaid" is better left to alternative projects like Rust.