Follow-up Comment #15, bug #67902 (group groff): I'll address this point now and leave the rest for another day.
[comment #14 comment #14:]
> (c) At no point do you consider the costs or tradeoffs
> involved in making the change you desire.
In the original submission I quoted your 2023 remarks about the probable
cost.
This is a valid consideration when choosing whether and when to fix it. Those
are questions developer(s) can answer, and I'm not trying to play the role of
developer. I opened this to report an observation Doug made, which he termed
"anomalous behavior" (perhaps not exactly a bug, but not desired behavior),
that has no benefit to users that anyone has been able to articulate. This
means, to me, that in an ideal world it should be fixed.
I recognize the real-world trade-offs to this (and all behavioral changes)
that may result in postponing it indefinitely or declining to fix it. But I
reject arguments that the current behavior is desired by or useful to anyone,
and I want the ticket to clearly show that, if it is rejected, the reason is
the cost, not some handwaving about how it's quasidocumented, so users must
want it this way.
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