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There are lots of Haskell features where adding new instances changes the behavior of existing code. OverlappingInstances is merely the most obvious example, but there are plenty of others.

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Yes, but they are opt in, right?

Does not successfully linking count? Because adding an orphan instance can definitely make unrelated code that used to link start failing to.

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