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Yet the upgrades come with cost. API changes—even modest ones—ripple across large, polyglot codebases. The migration burden falls disproportionately on teams that lack tight CI pipelines or the luxury of greenfield rewrites. Small businesses and legacy-driven enterprises may find themselves squeezed: pay for migration now, or pay for operational drag forever. The social contract between language maintainers and the ecosystem is being tested: how do you reward progress without abandoning those who built the foundation?