This article is accusing maintainers of pushing a bad change. It was immediately obvious that there was only one side of the story being told here. And lo and behold, there was a lot of missing context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=38592984&goto=item%3Fi...

and individuals involved have been receiving harassment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18f5oi9/comment/kcss...