I’m going to close this topic now since we’re confident in our decision and productive discussion has settled down.
While we did update our initial plan based on early feedback, I don’t foresee us making any additional changes to what we’ve since decided.
As a reminder, this change will go into effect in Discourse versions shortly after the next major release. Self-hosted sites who wish to delay this change going into effect for their own communities can choose to remain on that release, by switching to the stable branch after the next release, which will be maintained until January 2026.