> There were hundreds of people against it.

Engineering is not a democracy. The technical merits of an argument are more important than how popular it is with arbitrary commenters on GitHub.

> Many voiced their refusals, they were also well-argued and politely put.

I read the comments on the node and requests issues and didn't see anything well-argued. Nothing said there refutes the substance of the request. Saying "but it doesn't do any harm" and then speculating about how the IETF should do things instead is not a coherent argument.

> On another note, isn't it important to have students think HTTP is fun?

Genuinely, it isn't.