Haha, whuuuut? Only in WordPressland would people actually question the value of changelogs. Are people seriously suggesting that a diff is an adequate replacement? Seriously?

Here's an idea — instead of getting bogged down in terms of whether people would use them or not, or use them properly, or whatever, how about let's just build the functionality in and if people use them, they do?

And if you're worried people are going to be shitty developers and not use the facilities available to document their code and inform their users — maybe that has something to do with the fact there are practically no processes within the WordPress community for cultivating good open source developers and the whole development is experience seems stuck in about 2006? Maybe if the plugin submission process was a little bit more than a lint and a rubberstamp, maybe people would be more invested in their projects and might take the time to do things like fill out changelogs?

I'm getting off topic — yes, ffs; changelogs!