This might be a bad argument. It's like a couple planning on having children making the decision where to live. Them saying "the kids aren't here, so let's buy this child-unfriendly place that we might have to pay off for 2 decades" would be self-sabotage.

If Kernel maintainers don't let their future plans influence their current decisions, then they're throwing away the benefit of foresight and potentially sabotaging those future plans.

Now 3 years later, the property market is horrible so you'd sell at a loss, your first child is on the way and you're worried about the 23th floor apartment that you bought that's far from child-care facilities and playgrounds.