Can easily do

This came across in a pull request comment at work today:

"Anyone who wants this can easily do so by adding it to their own .irbrc."

A subsequent pull request removed the functionality that I used, without 1. telling me (or any other developer on the team) in any meaningful way that this change was happening ("SURPRISE!"), or 2. telling me (or any other developer on the team) how to restore the original functionality. Nothing like a command from on-high to cause development hiccup time and cognitive overhead from every developer who preferred the original (and, I would argue, superior) toolset.

The whole thing started a holy war at work. The two groups were "We want this tool to get work done easily and efficiently!" and "We don't want extra dependencies!"

If you take