Unfortunately, it seems like most of the major decisions made to Wordpress Core have been for the purpose of benefiting wordpress.com, not the project itself. Its decisions like this (and just a generally poor development experience compared to other CMSs, imo) that make me hope I never have to go back to Wordpress. It was revolutionary when it first came out, but there are better options now that won't make you fight the tool as much as Wordpress makes you, even if it means fewer out-of-the-box plugins. But great for you, fighting to keep Wordpress as the community wants it, not just as Wordpress.com wants it!
Unfortunately, it seems like most of the major decisions made to Wordpress Core have been for the purpose of benefiting wordpress.com, not the project itself. Its decisions like this (and just a generally poor development experience compared to other CMSs, imo) that make me hope I never have to go back to Wordpress. It was revolutionary when it first came out, but there are better options now that won't make you fight the tool as much as Wordpress makes you, even if it means fewer out-of-the-box plugins. But great for you, fighting to keep Wordpress as the community wants it, not just as Wordpress.com wants it!
Thank you - I couldn't have said it better myself!