I have reconsidered and now think that we should always hard-fail
if asserts asserts are disabled. It is just easier to reason about
the code knowing that asserts are evaluated.
If an end-user or library user has a concrete use case where this is
a problem, please open an issue and let us know.
follow-up
0f541be6f10e5464ca13
old style "-v" still works
filtering examples:
-v=debug,network=error,interface=error // effectively blacklists network and interface
-v=warning,network=debug,interface=debug // effectively whitelists network and interface
