Yeah it is really the opposite of what I would expect. To say to people who’ve been helping for free for years that they need to start all over and that none of all the things they’ve done (for free) matter anymore is very harsh. If you got a company you don’t demote your senior programmer to a junior level again simply because you start a new production either. You’d have no employees in no time if you’d do that. A community should not expect to feel any different or be considered less valuable. Especially when it costs nothing to fix things like these.