How many Drupal Core change records (CR) has there been over the years? Is it a manageable amount for contrib maintainers?  How many are about something new or deprecated? This is what it looks like since 2018. For visual effect I grouped CRs in 4 buckets:  deprecated : code that will be going away at some point. adjust : existing API with new behaviors, rename. new : a whole new api, subsystem, features. other : internal changes, policies, or other non-detectable changes. CRs per minor by canonical tag Diverging stacked bar chart of change records per Drupal core minor, split by canonical CR tag. Above the x-axis: new, other residual. Below the x-axis: deprecated. Change records per Drupal minor, by intent Same per-minor counts as the previous chart, split by canonical CR tag. Above the axis: adds and keep-working changes. Below: deprecated.…