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Except git porcelain are already frozen long time ago, codified in millions of CI/CD pipelines, and impossible to change. It's not a great comparison.

Hell, "apt" explicitly warns you not to use it in scripts, and yet everyone does.

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Well to be fair, most people don't look at the apt's output in their scripts, they just do "apt install -y --no-install-recommends all the wonderful packages they need" and move on with "&&".

If that was the case then I wouldn't see messages that X or Y commands behavior are going to change in the future. The master branch moral panic thing comes to mind for example.

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