Hey,
Validator was rejected from being included in core
I'm happy it did. The code was quite poor at that time (two years back?). And it still is not a hallmark of great design, though certainly not below average MW quality at this point. Regardless of that, I now think it is a bad idea to have it in core and would not petition to have it there in the future.
but now basically every extension you maintain uses it.
Can you please look at objective reality first before making claims about how you would like the world to be so you can bitch about it? Not only are you overly simplifying things, you get simple facts plain wrong.
Cheers
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