User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-33210554-20200818161143/@comment-24006128-20200818164856

We did gauge user opinion through years of feedback collection and User Experience Research studies.

Software updates aren't up to platform votes.

Platform-wide software updates also aren't optional on a wiki-by-wiki basis. This isn't just a cosmetic change we can disable per wiki. It's a fundamental rebuild of the platform onto software which is 8 years newer than the legacy build.