>Round wheels are ancient, it doesn't mean we should switch to the square wheels.

No, but it means we better use rubber wheels, not stone ones...

It doesn't mean right either, and the person you are responding to gave specific reasons why they prefer longer.

So it’s almost as if the “ancient” qualifier was useless.

Well it was clearly meant to imply that the reason we are using it is merely tradition, and that there was a reason a long time ago that no longer applies.

It was intended to mean "relavent in old times".

And we all use 80-column wheels because that's what the ancients used, by Zeus!

Oh wait, we use wheels sized for their use cases…

Do we, though?

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We also shouldn’t burn people deemed witches at the stake. Being ancient doesn’t make it right, either.