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It's not a lie. I have read their post. And my interpretation reading between the lines is they dropped it because of complexity
Fair enough. They did not explicitly say they removed it for complexity.
The facts are: they started with a protocol that had perfect forward secrecy, and they removed it, but not for philosophical reasons.
They were not opposed to perfect forward secrecy
In today's ecosystem there are products that use onion networks and provide perfect for secrecy like simple x, and briar over tor...
You're welcome to make any decision you like, if you want to use session go right ahead. I'm not going to stop you, and I'm happy you're doing so. We're all better for choice