Feck, why not? I’ve seen much worse reasons for technical decisions in the past and dammit, if he didn’t earn it, the bar’s set too high.
IETF Draft Proposal:
Recommended explicit padding bytes used in Internet related protocols
And from this server’s headers…
Long time no type http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2020/07/11/long-time-no-type/
This is not even a little surprising, but it's getting exhausting.
A party running on the platform of "we won't do the right thing when it matters, but we promise that we will later, if you just hand us completely unearned power once again."
And people buying into it.
