Hey Nathan,
I’ll speak to what I can. I don’t make policy on this topic, and am not able to address it here.
I’ll start by apologizing for my insensitive wording in the disingenuous statement; that was my statement and I need to own it. I’m sorry that I trivialized your concerns, which are valid. My statement was intended to say 5 != 7, and not imply anything more.
I think we all agree - people in this thread, and Netlify - that the roll out and communications for this launch were not up to Netlify’s standards or your expectations for them, as our CEO pointed out here (I think you have all seen it, but just in case: Upcoming changes to Netlify plans - #134 by biilmann).
This change is complex, and we are working on improving it now. That work is in progress.
I, and my staff including @perry and @hillary are not the ones making the decisions about how we do it or how we talk about it, and so I and they cannot “rush” an answer to questions on which I am not the authority. I can beg for your patience, which you can choose to withhold or not, but I cannot create something from nothing, and I do not have the information you want today. Nobody has concrete data; we have plans, and we are working on them. Those plans may change, so we are not sharing them yet. When they are firm, we will.
As promised, we will share more news as soon as we can - likely later this week, and we will share that news when it is ready. I think that we’ve already seen the effects of poorly planned communications and so I appreciate your patience as we continue with our status quo:
- not to enforce this change today
- to continue work on retooling it
…before we make any fast promises that may not be possible to implement in code, or that may change as we write the code and discover better ways to do things.
Once we have a firm plan, and have it most of the way implemented to ensure practicality and fitness for use, we can then give you the details, so you can make the best, correctly informed decision for your business.