I see parallels with the thread over here about whether people should be using the most recent distributions or sticking with older, more stable stuff.
FYI, I’m a new ROS user and have been evaluating it for use in a product I’m working on. We’re using the NVIDIA Jetson which only has Ubuntu 18, so I’m stuck on Eloquent. Recently I tried using rosbag2 but the ros-eloquent-ros2bag version doesn’t even implement --loop??
This was really the final straw and I’ve decided to give up on ROS2 and try ROS1 instead, or potentially skip ROS altogether. Releasing incomplete software under official-sounding names like rosbag2 is a great way to make people like me lose trust in the ecosystem.
This seems like a very reasonable solution to the current tension here.