The silver lining is that the reason for that change was because a proposal for stable inline assembly is actually making progress now, which is IMO fantastic and long overdue.
> Shouldn't it have been a simple find-and-replace?
For a single crate, sure.
When you're managing multiple crates, an older nightly compiler version (because the software hasn't been tested much on the newer nightly), and git submodules... it isn't so easy.
I wasn't actually doing the work, but from the outside it seemed like a pain.
