Your viewpoint is interesting, and reveals a cultural viewpoint.
From my deaf viewpoint, CI allways have been accepted in the deaf community, depedent on what definition one use. It's how it has been described by hearing people and how has been expected to work according to the medical community that has changed. More hearing people are now realizing the limits of CI, and understand better what the average deaf person allways have tried to tell them.
Unfortunately, CI's been around for 30 years with the medical community and a lot of parents still stumbling in the dark, resorting to new inventions like "technological improvement" and "informed choices", but it's brighter than before.
