> you needed permission to publish a native module Elm's package repo.

See, this, to me, sounds quite reasonable.

A feature is potentially dangerous to the rest of the ecosystem if encountered unexpectedly: therefore, we put some extra friction on sharing code which uses those features, and made it an obvious and opt-in process if you wished to take that potential danger into your project. Great!

Given that... why on earth would it be necessary to remove the feature from the language entirely?