Ray Saintonge wrote:
Pinning this on "old timers" is a grossly offensive mischaracterization of the problem.
Indeed. I'm an "old timer" myself and I'm quite annoyed by stuff like this. Perhaps the real dividing line that's causing conflict is between unilateralists and collaborationists; it used to be that unilateral actions tended to be reverted without much fuss if large numbers of people disagreed with them but now there are an increasing number of policies and processes (BLP, DRV, etc.) that can be used as bludgeons to "enforce" decisions.