ethers.js-V7: Request for less breaking changes

[nomo-app]

First of all, I would like to thank you for making ethers.js-V6.
V6 has excellent features like ES2020-bigint's and V6 has become a critical piece of the nomo-webon-kit.

However, many devs in our company are still struggling with the migration from V5 to V6.
Of course we want to use latest JS-features, but I feel like some the deprecations were too fast (see #4289 and #4312).

So my hope is whether it would be possible to make ethers.js-V7 a "light breaking" release where most of the documentation remains valid?
In my opinion, the documentation has been a huge mess during the V5 -> V6 migration, and we cannot expect all Stackoverflow-posts, all tutorials and all LLM-AI-answers to be rewritten every year.
I have no problem with breaking changes in general, however, I am trying to avoid a situation where all the documentation gets thrown into the garbage every year.

[ricmoo]

Yes, light-breaking (or and most, no-breaking) is the goal.

Since I moved from ES3 to modern JS, there were lots of new features I could use (sorry Internet Explorer uses ;)). The biggest obviously being BigInt, which was going to be a huge change for everyone.

Going forward there are two huge advantages to how v6 was organized:

1. using modern features, and pulling off a lot of the bandaids to sore spots that had crept in since 2016, means things are staring from a better API more geared towards modern blockchain development.

2. Using standard build processes (instead of v5’s custom monorepo fleet of scripts), v6 and v7 will be able to be maintained in tandem for some time.

But I agree, it was the most intense migration for most and one I’d prefer to avoid again. Also, I will start releasing v7 betas within a week or so. I’d love early feedback. :)

[nomo-app]

Great to hear, I think that ethers.js-v6/v7 will become a rock-solid base for the next six years to come!
Also, once the Nomo App supports account abstraction, we will surely try out the account abstraction features from ethers.js-V7.