"The overwhelming majority of Ubuntu users would almost never notice application installs running faster?"
You're right, of course. Rather than taking 10 minutes or 30 minutes on dist-upgrade, instead the application installs will fail to work, because of this bizarre decision to favour correctness over something that just works.
I'm sure the users will thank you for the time they've saved.
"The overwhelming majority of Ubuntu users would almost never notice application installs running faster?"
You're right, of course. Rather than taking 10 minutes or 30 minutes on dist-upgrade, instead the application installs will fail to work, because of this bizarre decision to favour correctness over something that just works.
I'm sure the users will thank you for the time they've saved.