User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-34601615-20201021190946/@comment-27831991-20201021194000

Okay, what to say here? How do I make a rebuttal? Well, I actually compiled a full list of what the heck is wrong with UCP, such as inability to turn off Discussions, with the help of others I found more problems. Another thing to note is that Classic Editor was simply intuitive and they're not returning it because it's "buggy" yet they can just make it friendly with 1.33 with some time and effort.

Another thing to note is that pre-installed is different from installing it for yourself. They have no plans on returning Wiki Activity, we have to download it but we may not know about DevWiki or how CSS works, AjaxPolls aren't returning due to insufficient usage (which I feel as if is dumb in itself), etc. etc. And we shouldn't have to fix the templates ourselves due to a migration! It should already be fixed! Oh, and did you know Tabview? Yeah. That's something.

In short, I'm pretty sure the whole outcry is because all we asked for was a MediaWiki update, but unfortuantely it brought misfortunes upon us. People asked for a MediaWiki update, it came with way too much downgrades surpassing the upgrades by a mile, whole outcry starts.

TL;DR: We shouldn't be the ones trying to fix up the entire wiki with scripts breaking and stuff, and the downgrades really is what caused near-universal outrage.