There's one thing that leaves me puzzled, though. Forgive my ignorance, I'm not trying to complain and I'm not trying to offend anybody, I'm just trying to understand how this team works.

Knowing that currently, feature freeze is in effect, from my understanding of serious software development, that would mean only bug fixes are accepted, or minor changes with minimum impact and minimum chance of new regressions. Backporting a patch from an external project, which is even WAY ahead, sounds like a definite no-go to me during feature freeze. Yet it seems such a backport is preferred here over a quick and regression-free bugfix.

Same goes for my other PR (4192). It seems, instead of a quick temporary bugfix for Gotham, again a major change of functionality is preferred.

Am I missing something here? Is feature freeze not enforced, or monitored?

Please explain and again, sorry again for my ignorance. Thanks.