> it is tacit consent for an unfinished solution

No. It is cutting unused features to make a manageable product.

* "That won't work on GCC 5.5." We don't support GCC 5.5, or any compiler which wasn't shipped this decade.

* "What about FreeBSD?" What about it? We only have Linux servers

* "This only works on systemd." Good, we're a systemd shop.