User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-30687447-20201017125928/@comment-5078732-20201017234511

What's the alternative? Just stay on legacy MediaWiki forever and constantly try to duct tape a custom fork of it together? At the very least, it would be a lot more work for the developers in the long run (vs. a bunch of issues that can be fixed in the short term here), and at the most it might lead to security vulnerabilities. While I'm not nuts about any breaks from the norm this may cause, speaking as an IT student (no real experience yet but I'm working on it!), I'd rather they rip the Band-Aid™ off and get it over with.