> yet to see anything better.

Try Beyond Compare v5.

Could you provide an example where maintainer "ripped out" a feature because of a strictly political reason?

When I say "political" I'm referring more to belief systems, but calling them religious beliefs would be far too antagonistic for the point I'm trying to make.

Iceweasel is full of examples of parts of Firefox removed because the maintainers had personal disagreements on the values of Firefox. Firefox is a fairly privacy-forward browser and Mozilla stand up for a lot of those ideals, and yet Iceweasel pulls features and telemetry on the basis of them being by-definition bad. I think that's a politics/identity statement more than a UX improvement.

I strongly disagree with packagers putting their opinion on top of the software they are packaging, I think packaging should be as pure a translation as is possible for the target system. Now in the case of Iceweasel it could change the branding which I think would give them more leeway to put opinion into it as it's "not Firefox" and there's little risk of users being confused, but I'd also bet that Debian wouldn't accept another pure Firefox packaging because it would duplicate the package in their minds. If that is the case I think that nullifies the idea.

Thank you, Internet stranger. This LLMNR/mDNS dichotomy has been on the back of my mind for quite some time. You've made it clear.

ur welcome. parts of it are in the zero conf wikipedia page btw.