White paper: Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability

And how many of those options have "deprecated" in their name? Surely that's a massive red flag.

> It means that developers don't have a clue what people (users!) actually want and need.

And how many developers are employed by (therefore are) users? I believe Alphabet employs loads. Meta employs loads. Most of the kernel developers I have contact with are employed by large end users. It's a little difficult to be oblivious of your own needs. (Some people manage, I'm sure ...)

How difficult is it - to set a "not enabled" flag that cannot be accessed without some sort of warning that this flag will enable deprecated functionality Surely it's not beyond the wit of your typical kernel developer? That's ALL that's required.

Cheers,
Wol