There is very little transparency to these rule changes here on Steemit.

But it's all there in Github. I've been following every release for the last month.

and 99.5% (best guess) of the platform's users are completely unaware of the changes

But... not everyone is a geek nerd techie programmer like me. A rules change insert, as you mentioned, would be much better (and easier) for the average user for sure.

The fact is, the transparency here is quite amazing, but few have the technical abilities to take advantage of that transparency and fully understand and appreciate the consequences of the code changes prior to them being released. There is a bit of "fast and lose" going on (as @smooth mentioned in their reply as well), but, to me, they have been justified responses to hacks, market liquidity reward issues, and exploitations of the mining algorithm. I'm hopeful things will settle down in the future as the low-hanging fruit gets exploited and repaired.