Re: delete-selection-mode

[Richard Stallman]

    Is that really an objective point of view? To me it looks like 
    arrogance, and if I were a prospective new user of Emacs encountering 
    it, I might be inclined to look elsewhere.

That would be no disaster.

All else being equal, we would prefer to make each potential user
feel more at home with Emacs.  But that does not mean we will
make incompatible changes that are bad for existing users.
This is a non-starter.