Beta6 landed 530 fixed tickets and 1 new committer. The 85-comment HN thread ignored all of it and argued about Haiku's AI ban instead, and the release notes turn out to be evidence for both sides.
Zero open issues, 891 watchers, and 14,460 commits on an 18-day-old repo. We checked all three against the GitHub API. The numbers hold up, and the ecosystem around it is the real story.
The strongest anti-MCP argument anywhere in the three threads, because it is about token mechanics rather than taste.
The best comment nobody upvoted. Nobody answered it, and across 512 comments we found no benchmark comparing MCP against code mode on the same task.
Dissent from inside a team that ships MCP servers for other teams, which makes it the most uncomfortable comment in the thread.