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I'm well aware. Have you seen this drama about it?

There really isn't any "drama" in that discussion. pyproject.toml is the way forward and projects will need to adopt it at some point.

Provided both are supported while new projects move to pyproject.toml

I really don't like how projects are being broken

That comment was made two years before PEP 621 even existed.

Okay, so then maybe my issue is that four years existed between PEP 518 and 621. :|