They keep being asshats about it, covenants are inevitably damned. They are good developers, and the code is pretty good too, but they need to learn that being rude is a great way to get your great code shut down by full node operators.

The message body is...closer to being a persuasive message, but the overall disposition is far off target from a persuasive essay.

BIP 119 is being made an example of how not to introduce your code, in spite of its technical merits.