Though, when you say; "That’s not really in dispute by anyone." From numerous responses slamming down the idea of automatically formatting ONE formatting keystroke used by everyone;"return" to a universally accepted html equivalent "br", I'm a bit perplexed.

All it would do is make the post format with line breaks so it looks like the typed text in the box.

I'm also a little puzzled by the complaints about how difficult it is.

Historically, IBM punchcards had no representation for "return". Return was... insert another card.

So as computing advanced, and keyboards became a thing, everybody implemented their own solution. Interoperability wasn't an issue. Read the comments in CGI.pm in that regard.

CGI.pm converts every return or newline or endline or linefeed or whatever ever used in computing, internally. A bit of a pain in the neck but still just a few lines of code.

These days, on the internet, there isn't much to worry about, maybe someone copy/pasting text from windows. Big problem? Really?

Well yes, maybe, because PerlMonks has already implemented so many diverse workarounds, a simple replacement is no longer so simple.

I'm not entirely so sure about that, but once I have a chance to look at the code, If I'm not evicted as a "Troll" before then. I guess I'll find out.

But there seems to be many opposed, even to this one tiny little change to make posting a bit easier. I'm not entirely sure why I should bother when I'm getting pummeled about the head and called a troll for pointing out, what should be, in any other forum, a simple, straightforward solution.

Would a radio button

(+) convert newlines.

somewhere resolve the disagreement?