Just as a reminder we do have a light weight process for handling changes in "public" areas like configuration, monitoring, command line tools, etc. So as we get close to proposing changing something for the better we might want to make sure we are following the process to ensure we are doing the right thing.
The Apache Geode Improvement Process. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Lightweight+RFC+Process Charlie -- Charlie Black | cbl...@pivotal.io