I'm not sure that's the example you meant (the diff shows a "Defendent" -> "Defendant" change; "Defendent" is either a typo or a Briticism, and shouldn't be used in reference to a US legal case, where the term of art is "Defendant" (and we'd only capitalize it like that in titles of cases).  There are lots of things in MOS I loathe, but #Compass_points isn't that troublesome to me.  At worst it seems to generate unnecessary RM discussions sometimes, and some editwarring over "northeast" vs. "north-east" (I think it should explicitly cross-references WP:ENGVAR there).  Compass points shouldn't be capitalized unless in a proper name.  —  ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼