Well the revised syntax (http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-camlp4/manual007.html) is completely implemented as a camlp4 (p5?) extension, so if you have enough patience you can write another extension to replace the syntax with whatever you want, I suppose.
I like this trend. As a developer, I always try to spend all time on tech stuff, not on overhead of management of big company. Of course, I don't want to work OVER TIME.
