It’s not a conspiracy. All I was saying is that by breaking backwards compatibility downstream either has to comply or find another way.

As another commentor has mentioned, gnome did actually inform downstream a good while back but downstream did not engage, so gnome obviously proceeded with their own project how they saw fit. Which is the right way of course.

Downstream should have tried to engage and perhaps found a good work around but sadly didn’t.

So they’ll have to work it out now by themselves.