Thanks! This is less invasive than one might have expected. :-) I hadn't yet gotten to the ticket rotation and such, so special thanks for that.
Given the consensus we've achieved so far, I think we're at a point where we should be able to merge changes back in (this is something Maciej and I talked about a few weeks back). I've got a sort of pen-and-paper concordance of spec instructions in meeting minutes + issue numbers + roadmap items, and will take a look through this to check things off and see what rhetorical stuff we wanted to cover in addition around these topics. Will also publish a real -02 in HTML by Monday.
Still some heavy lifting ahead, but we're definitely making progress.