i feel the urge to point out that nowadays (i.e. with tools like guix) there
are new ways to "retain" backwards compatibility.
as long as one can trivially grab a guile-3-latest, or even depend on it
indefinitely, then it's not such a big issue that guile-25 is not backwards
compatible with guile-3 anymore.
IOW, if you don't want changes in your dependencies, then just don't update
them.
nevertheless, a cost-benefit analysis still applies to refactorings, but i
think the cost side is smaller than it is implied in this discussion.
(it's not an argument against retaining an ice-9 alias. and if it can be done
without much of a maintenance burden, then possibly even indefinitely.)
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