This seems well-reasoned and clear. The author is pissed off, but one can see why if what the article presents is accurate.<p>But I personally don't know either the code base or the material ("terminals") well enough to be potentially able to confirm or refute it.<p>It'd be great to see some refutation of this article or a defense of the original changes so we could make up our minds.
Looking at the post history from that site on HN, it's amazing how the author of the post keeps finding projects with totally irrational leadership that can't accept brilliant ideas /s