[slightlyoff]

Original author of the article here; I went out on a limb to document a bit of this in a footnote to a post a few years ago. Saying that it is unusual to call this behaviour out is a drastic understatement:

https://infrequently.org/2023/02/safari-16-4-is-an-admission...

And it was only this year that I wrote up the broader thesis:

https://infrequently.org/2025/08/how-do-committees-fail-to-i...

Most of my current and former colleagues wouldn't dare for (legitimate) fear of reprisal in the form of even worse blockage in important design areas.

[mdhb]

It’s even worse than I described.

The links proved here are incredibly damning and are exactly the kind of shit I’ve heard from many different people over many years at this point.

Don’t gaslight me and others and tell me there isn’t a problem here when there clearly is.