First of all, just because you (or the author) call collaboration a bad thing doesn't make it so. Secondly, you seem to have misunderstood the process. The steps are: I will be shipping shortly, here is the direction I decided on because XYZ, if you want to react there is some limited amount of time to do so but those objections better be nontrivial. There is no waiting for permission, the path is set - yes, barring strong objections. Apparently you think it's best to leave those for after the fact, well, good luck with that.