Because Ruby is nothing without the community around it. If they wanted to make Ruby and don’t care about the people using it, they should go private, shut down the project, or have someone else take over.

It’s wrong to shut down discussion like this with comments like “it’s their code”, “make your own fork”, etc. because Ruby is supposed to be part of the open source community, which implies collaboration, give and take, discussion of pros and cons, etc.

What you are doing is ignoring this major aspect of a programming language and taking this weird anti social stance on it.

I'm not shutting down any discussion, I'm simply stating my opinion. You're free to disagree.

I didn't say to fork it. Do you really not appreciate the difference between rebasing a trivial patch forever, and maintaining a wholesale fork forever?

Crowing on saying “it’s not your code, they can do what they want” is an attempt to do that.

Fork, patch, maintaining your private whatever, that’s not the point, and is a digression.

It's a perfectly valid point, you just disagree. I'm not the one shutting down discussion here.