I’ll also say that preserving the validity of code golf solutions isn’t something we care about.
Cool. Thank you. The golf sites will prepare accordingly for whenever it goes through.
The linked issue/mailing list comments were only “implicitly” responded to (one of them received two 
reactions and nothing more, which doesn’t leave a great taste in my mouth). exander’s collected comments were similarly unaddressed, though he did not move discussion here as suggested.