Why pressure featuers you like your self?

[afceier]

Two major things i noticed with this release:
1. smaller icons in the buddy list.
I personally don't mind this too much. But i can bet my left arm that 
some people with bad eye sight will be annoyed by this.

2. The removal of the _option_ to resize the text window.
I thought first this was a bug, and wanted to confirm it on irc. I 
got it confirmed that it was fully intended. Then I got a hostile 
feeling since i didn't like the removal. For me the main problem is 
that the whole IM window doesn't feel "right". Something is wrong, 
and for me it is!


That youre getting more features into the program is great. But that 
you're removing the old once cause you personally like the new once 
best is kinda lame.
Why not make it an option? Why I and others like the old visual 
better doesn't really matter. We are all different and we have different taste.
I don't see why giving us the options to choose is bad? And when i 
asked why you didn't make these features/changes as options. Things 
got hostile.

I read the mail archive and other have had the same opinion as myself 
and has gotten the same hostile attitude. They have to explain why 
they like the old pre-change better. They have to actually explain 
their TASTE! When instead of pressure the user into something new you 
could just add the option for the "new/old"
And when all is said and done. The user get in the face: Its open 
source, make the changes yourself *case closed*. When most users 
don't have the ability/skill to do so. Yes no one has had to pay you 
for the software, but even so you're not making it for yourself 
alone, cause then i and others wouldn't be using it as i write this.

I hope for options (soon) in the future. Or i have to again search 
for a new IM client. I really hope not to. Since Pidgin has worked 
great just erupted by the client isn't always synced to the server, 
so its half disconnected(MSN). But after i read the change log for 
the new version i hoped maybe this would be fixed. Then i got some 
others surprises as i have talked about.