User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-94.7.0.85-20200901145438/@comment-26939652-20200901213741

Your analogy also has bad repair contractors, hidden costs, temporary inconvenience of having to deal with reduced comfort because of repairs. Where your analogy fails is that the owners of the house could decide to move to another house. That's surprisingly more difficult in the virtual world, because of SeO, users, interwiki links etc.

The state of UCP is now that upgrading is a downgrade in core functionality, decrease in performance, decrease in stability and usability. I'm glad they are pausing to take stock, but I'm not convinced that when they restart the process it will be an upgrade, as only a few of the issues are acknowledged to have critical mass.