> We've carefully considered the considerable i...

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[fellshard]

We've carefully considered the considerable input we've received, spent no small amount of time thinking about it, and have concluded that the current design center is the right one for the current time. What is surely meant as well-intentioned input is in fact rapidly turning into a denial-of-service attack. We could spend endless time arguing this back and forth, and there'd be no JDK 8 as a result. I'm sure no one wants that.

That does not sound like a reasoned debate, that sounds like 'many people are giving feedback and we don't have time / patience to consider that maybe we need to refine our view just a little without going whole-hog into functional-land'.