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Lol? This doesnt seem very democratic then
Because no one agreed to a democratic decision. It's just randomly made up.
The poor devs aren't even saying "no". They're just saying "what the hell is going on and why didn't you ask us about this first".
Pretty poor form for the OP to use a "KDE Developer"-badged account when they didn't have any backing from the KDE developers to make the post. Makes it look a lot more official than it actually is.
Why would it be democratic? It's just a popularity pool and devs have full control over the direction of the project.