>Who are losers here?

Evidently you did not read the original release or the top comment, but this has nothing to do with carriage return.

>Then why does every other language, text editor and text tool in existence deal with this single extra character?

On Windows, Emacs by default will save your files with linefeed and no carriage return, only when opening the file will it infer crlf, as it should.

But you're right, where possible I try to avoid Windows.