Re: "Use font-lock-support-mode rather than calling lazy-lock-mode"

[Richard Stallman]

    > What would people think of making font-lock-support-mode a no-op, and
    > creating some new variable people can use if they really want to use
    > something else instead of jit-lock?

    They'd think "Damn, Richard!  What got into you?".
    Seriously, I think we're wasting our time here: this problem does not
    impact functionality.

I am skeptical of these statements.
Could you present reasons for them?