<quote name="Steven Walling" date="2014-03-28" time="18:39:18 -0700">
I don't really think those things about TOC and external links are a big deal or blockers. They seem pretty nit-picky to me.
For what it's worth, the TOC change is what made me disable TypoRefresh on mw.org so I could continue editing my project pages without getting frustrated (which is also why I didn't notice it wasn't removed in time...)