Comment by steveklabnik

The devil is in the details, because standardization work is all about details.

From my outside vantage point, there seems to be a few different camps about what is desired for contracts to even be. The conflict between those groups is why this feature has been contentious for... a decade now?

Some of the pushback against this form of contracts is from people who desire contracts, but don't think that this design is the one that they want.