I am legitimately confused why my parent comment is being mass downvoted: the point I was making is that this is change is more a perk for agent use with Rust since agents typically will resolve warnings by solving the issue (and therefore proactively remove redundant dependencies)

I think most people (rightly or not) feel pretty negatively about the concept of a project having hundreds of unused dependencies. If you've lost track of your codebase to such an extent as that, you should probably expect a little bit of social pushback from people who pride themselves on understanding their code and being responsible for it. It's just a fundamentally different and in some ways upsetting mindset to the average programmer.

How do you guys know when your comment is downvoted? I seem to be missing something in Hacker News.

Confuses me too. Maybe they just stopped reading after the first sentence and assumed you were complaining about new warnings?

fwiw my immediate reaction (I didn't downvote) to your comment was "no one asked".