I didn’t get the sense from TFA that STRICT is strictly better, only that it’s how this person prefers to operate in their time and context and experience.

At some level, shouldn’t choices where one option is strictly better not surface as configurable choices at all?

If I have to memorize sets of behaviors by “compatibility version,” don’t I now have to remember lots of sets of particular footguns, across time and across systems that I work on (or parachute into)?