Dawnne Gee wrote:
It's kind of like going to your favorite restaurant, ordering a New! Better! No Hormones! steak, and the waitress brings you a plate with some rice and veggies on it, and tells you the steak will be served later....on the table behind you.
Any good restaurant will let you send a plate back if you don't like it, and WordPress let's people custom any part of it they like through plugins free of charge, and I won't even question your taste or say you don't care for open source like other people on this list, everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Deciding what's best for core is *really* hard, and by definition if you're picking something that's right for 90% of the user base with something as large as WordPress that's still *hundreds of thousands of people* for whom the change is not right for.
There are no sacred cows, everything is open to discussion, but the amount we can change gets smaller and smaller as we near release. A few months ago we did push things back a few weeks to get some more testing on how the comments section worked after it was implemented to see if the theories and hypotheses were correct, as it was something that was counter-intuitive to myself and other devs, but after a RC2 you have to focus on "blockers" and leave the deeper examination for the next release cycle.
Fortunately, for as much testing has been one, we'll have better data to make a decision for 2.6, for example how many people are using the plugin which puts the category thing back on the side, or does the average number of tags or categories per post go up or down on WP.com after the interface is switched. (WP.com does 100,000 posts a day.) If it dips, is it a permanent dip, or a temporary one?
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