I find myself using the Arduino forum less and less
and in fact it reduces my overall interest in Arduino in general.
I interact with close to 60 forums on many different topics and
I've not seen anything like what is happening on this forum.
It is crazy that something as basic as "search" is missing on this forum.
(Using Google is not the same as having a forum search.)
What I'm seeing with respect to the current Arduino
forum reminds me of so much that seems to be happening all over the place
these days with respect to s/w.
Someone decides that a particular want/need/feature is important enough to change
"everything" for a new implementation.
While often that narrow want/need/feature is obtained, it comes with a high cost.
The cost is that not only is there a large engineering effort to make the changes
(which are often larger than anticipated), but there is also
a major disruption for the existing user base.
Often many other capabilities and features are sacrificed, lost or broken,
and in many cases the final net result is a less functional less stable product
than what existed originally.
i.e. one set of problems was exchanged for another and yet
some of the original functionality was lost in the process.
I know everybody likes to watch a train wreck, but it's not so fun when you
are a passenger.
--- bill