I've loved all this stuff since Doom, and your site makes me love it more. Well, I thought it was even if you don't. Not at all. I'd downgrade to the point release if I could find it, and servers were running it. I'll keep this short and hopefully sweet.
Memories are short, apparantly.
This is the man that perfected that little thing called QuakeWorld, and brought us CTF2. I think with that kind of record, he's allowed to mess up now and again. Personally I was happy with v3.14, and didn't see any need for autodownload, chasecams, air acceleration variables etc.