Re: delete-selection-mode

[Richard Stallman]

    _All_ types of visible selection should be the same, including t-m-m
    (C-SPC + movement) selections, to the greatest extent possible.

    Having multiple "types" of selection that are
    sorta-the-same-but-sorta-different is just going to make Emacs harder to
    use for everybody, and harder to learn for beginners.

We have multiple "types" of selection now, which behave differently
in regard to DEL.  Is there any empirical sign that this makes Emacs
harder to use -- for anyone?  Or harder to learn -- for anyone?