I imagine the decision was made by people who work with the main ACL conferences, but it also impacts linguist-dominated venues like SCiL and PACLIC which should serve as a bridge between the communities. Linguists are no longer able to use the tool we're most familiar with.

Hello from a different Georgia!

Hahaha at UGA it was last week!

(to be clear, it's really just applications of some very elementary differential geometry and stats, nothing fancy to be called a theorem! but I still think having definitions/propositions numbered would help)

I fear that is only substituting lag and unpredictability for dependency hell ...

Wish I could join! But the timing is most unfortunate for me 😭😭😭