6. We could have renamed channels to communities or groups. But then the issue is people would have said what happened to channels. 

7. Most people can’t be bothered to read the manual / what’s changed. So part of my job is to repeat that 100-1000x across a variety of casts and replies.

8. Another issue is the original group of channels that got huge audiences as a result of the growth earlier this year. People see the big follower number and want access despite the new model not giving you a distribution boost / explicitly designed to not have canonical topics. 

9. Removing the legacy channels wouldn’t be good since some owners did do a bunch of work in the model to grow them.