I am not going to respond to this since it is way off topic but if you want to believe the community had a hand in choosing go ahead, nothing will stop you from believing that.
First of all, every single one of my beliefs can change with logic and/or new information. Secondly, I never said the community had a giant role in making that change. All I said was that the devs recognized that the community must be able to decide, and they made sure to leave it as an OPTION so that if the users really did hate the change, they had the power to undo it.
The whole ROLE of developers is to improve the software and think about the long term. Gavin made a change he thought did that. That's his job. If you disagree, then go rally users to implement the config changes I listed. It's really easy.
