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You're right that the language isn't to blame as such.

But if a change like this doesn't cause some kind of uproar in the Ruby community, then the community has a problem.

It won’t cause a uproar because Ruby/Rails changes APIs on minor versions all the time. Breaking changes are pushed at a yearly rate and everyone is just expected to cope with them.

That’s what I’ve gathered. That still seems stupid to me. Why does the Ruby/Rails community do that?

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