stu wrote:it seems a little ironic that those who are complaining of changed game mechanics are the ones trying to change them completely.
I think you're reading too much into it.
The whole discussion about what happened in the past is mostly irrelevant. The poll asks "what do you want" and people chose their favorite option. Ignoring the github poll, the poll results above show nothing about who voted what option or even who they are. It's entirely possible that people complain about the past but didn't even vote or voted something completely different.
In the end what matters is that we'll end up with a better and more consistent game mechanic. If you remove the complaining thread and just look at the poll outcome, it's pretty clear what people want. Now we just have to come up with a way to make as many people get what they want with as simple of a code as possible.