Good engineering design is about making unbalanced tradeoffs where you get huge wins for low costs. These kinds of decisions are opinionated and require you to say no to some edge cases to get a lot back on the important cases.
One lesson I have learned is that good design cannot survive popularity and bureaucracy that comes with it. Over time people just beat down your door with requests to do cases you explicitly avoided. You’re blocking their work and not being pragmatic! Eventually nobody is left to advocate for them.
And part of that is the community has more resources and can absorb some more complexity. But this is also why I prefer tools with smaller communities.