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Personally I'm glad that's the case. Configuring servers via gui is an abomination, and I hope it stays in the windows world.
Personally, I rather enjoy not having my kids shot at school.
Conversely, it is much easier, on several levels, to support and guide someone you spend your whole day and go to lunch with.
Story doesn't check out.
Search for "asking the editor to step down" to find the moment when the working group decided he was more trouble than it's worth (and GnuPG's support was obviously worth a lot in the openpgp community).
(I suppose strictly speaking it's still a "proposed standard" vs "internet standard", but so is basically everything else)
Mostly it's a question of middle ground for an acceptable scale of decision, but "only change something if we know for a fact it's purely beneficial" is not a realistic plan no matter how intensely important the matter is. At some point decisions have to be made.
This is one of the things that becomes harder and more entrenched the worse those decisions are democratically legitimated. I think it's not unlikely that the difference in expectations between us boils down to a general different level of trust in authority.
For some things there just is no easy way.
I'm a happy subscriber, and it's certainly a big improvement over Google search. But the internet just isn't the same place it was five years ago. And as search results (for non-navigational queries) are becoming less useful by the day, I find myself asking AI to do it for me more.
There's a lot to like about Kagi, but they'll probably have to reinvent themselves if they want to grow beyond the niche that high level internet search will probably become.