I agree with you, wholeheartedly. However, Nate has a lot of influence and no doubt if he thinks it must be done then likely it will.

Less than you think... Not that Nate is not a well-recognised dev in and out of KDE. But you have to know that FLOSS devs are incredibly opinionated and stubborn, even the shy ones that don't talk much. Many of them started and persist within FLOSS because they have a clear view of what is right and wrong, and it is obvious that this issue is going to rub very many contributors the wrong way big time. In the end, for better or worse, KDE is a flat organisation and the voice and vote of the person who translated the labels on the weather widget counts as much as that of the veteran power dev who wrote KHTML.

Nothing against him personally of course.

Liekwise. I would go as far as considering him a friend. We do disagree on stuff though.

I’ll still be pulling my donations, and if they do decide to not implement it then I’ll be more than happy to resume. At the end of the day I’m powerless to really affect change on their end, albeit trying to voice my opinion in the matter.

Of course! This was never about convincing you otherwise. It was about pointing out that the situations is... complicated and that the opinion of one person does not represent the position of the whole organisation.