So, regardless of one's feelings on this particular feature, I think we can see what the loss of a BDFL means: feature bloat. It was once one of the core tenets of python that there be one, best way to do a given thing, because that meant that when you read _another_ programmer's code, you could usually understand it easily. This is as opposed to languages like Perl, javascript, or R, which for all their great traits are each essentially several different languages masquerading as a one.
It's probably inevitable, once you do not have a single person to say no to new features for things that can already be done, that you end up with feature bloat. So, no need to rant about it. But it does effectively demonstrate what the impact of a BDFL is, and what is missing once you don't have one (or at any rate he's not really D any more).
It's probably inevitable, once you do not have a single person to say no to new features for things that can already be done, that you end up with feature bloat. So, no need to rant about it. But it does effectively demonstrate what the impact of a BDFL is, and what is missing once you don't have one (or at any rate he's not really D any more).