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You are citing words from my comment, but you are debating against imaginary comments which you invented. I already clarified in my previous comment that what you are debating against is unrelated to my comments, and I have no further clarifications I can add to help.

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You objected to people's work being "invalidated".

But you did not respond to the idea that if someone's work caused bad things to happen, then it should be invalidated.

That is directly related to your objection of work being invalided, which is actually not a problem because bad things should be invalidated.

Companies fix past mistakes all the time without publicly denouncing the team's previous work.

Apple brought back several ports in the new MacBook Pro series after killing them several years ago. This was done in a confident manner under excellent management and public communication.

> without publicly denouncing the team's previous work.

But I don't see a problem with denouncing bad things that companies have done in the past. If a company caused lots of problems, then it should deserve the condemnation for the bad things that it caused.

It deserves the condemnation because it caused bad things to happen.

I disagree that merits outweighed the demerits in the case we are discussing here, but I respect your viewpoint.

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