My impression is that the new interpretation reduces false positives but increases false negatives. It remains to be seen if that is desirable.
Sanskrit is, after all, a language which has a vast body of literature stretching for ~6000 years. It is tricky to have a perfect set of rules.
Historically Sanskrit scholars had found it difficult to accept this idea of diverging usage of the language and labelled a vast majority of contemporary literature as Apabhraṃśa (literally meaning aberration). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apabhra%E1%B9%83%C5%9Ba
This weird fixation with rules is what has caused the language to decline over the last several centuries. As you might expect, the famous ancient Sanskrit bodies of work do not really adhere to the strict rules laid out later. That is not surprising, as the rules-people were usually distinct from the poets and story tellers.
Actually not true - after Panini came into the picture, the preservation of the "purity" continued for centuries, the decline of Sanskrit came due to successive invasions from the Middle East, and the stigma associated with casteism and other undesirable traditions associated with Sanskrit culture and history.
Even now you will find the nationalists and the leftists in India exagerrate the negatives and positives in popular media (of Sanskrit and ancient Indian culture)
Sanskrit is, after all, a language which has a vast body of literature stretching for ~6000 years. It is tricky to have a perfect set of rules.
Historically Sanskrit scholars had found it difficult to accept this idea of diverging usage of the language and labelled a vast majority of contemporary literature as Apabhraṃśa (literally meaning aberration). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apabhra%E1%B9%83%C5%9Ba
This weird fixation with rules is what has caused the language to decline over the last several centuries. As you might expect, the famous ancient Sanskrit bodies of work do not really adhere to the strict rules laid out later. That is not surprising, as the rules-people were usually distinct from the poets and story tellers.