Here is my take on the OpenPGP standards schism:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:schism

Nothing has improved and everything has gotten worse since I wrote that. Both factions are sleepwalking into an interoperability disaster. Supporting one faction or the other just means you are part of the problem. The users have to resist being made pawns in this pointless war.

>Maybe the new formats in RFC 9580 are indeed "too radical" of an evolutionary step to safely implement in GnuPG.

Traditionally the OpenPGP process has been based on minimalism and rejected everything without a strong justification. RFC-9580 is basically everything that was rejected by the LibrePGP faction (GnuPG) in the last attempt to come up with a new standard. It contains a lot of poorly justified stuff and some straight up pointless stuff. So just supporting RFC-9580 is not the answer here. It would require significant cleaning up. But again, just supporting LibrePGP is not the answer either. The process has failed yet again and we need to recognize that.