I will look into this more closely and check with the other reviewer.

If I’m wrong on this, I’m going to take public responsibility.

Either way I’m pretty sure I will start a discussion about it, often helps to get more answers.

Meanwhile, here’s the part of the transcript I was referring to (under the header “lessons from the Ethereum hard fork”):

“If each morning you wake up and the rules are changed, then you are changing the game. They start to use the technology and there are a couple of points in the timelines.

First, it’s a smart contract by itself. With Solidity, it is definitely not the choice. It should be improved. If it’s changing anything in Solidity, it’s changing all the rules in ethereum and changing all the rules inside the smart contracts in ethereum. If you’re designing this smart contract today, it doesn’t mean that tomorrow it will be able to work. If you change something in Solidity it might stop working and there is not continuous support of the same system.”