User blog comment:Vel!/FGH Gripe/@comment-5982810-20150325004329/@comment-2033667-20150327040331


 * But you can't just drop it like a hat because currently that is our only measuring rod. Either offer a better measuring rod

That's what I just did.


 * That will get many people pissed, and it will also leave newcomers with absolutely no way to even guess at what the powerful and weak functions are and what is better.

Appeal to consequences. The fact that people put faith in these conjectures doesn't validate keeping them.