he steamrolled quote posts into the master without discussing it with other maintainers or thinking how they will impact non-supporting instances
This is a lie. I merged it into the develop branch of Soapbox BE. And it has a backwards-compatibility feature (that took time to develop!) so you can see a link to the thing being quoted. It’s exactly what Fedibird and Misskey already do.
Please be informed before you spew nonsense, and try to THINK.