Why are you misrepresenting what I said? I never claimed that rewrites should always be avoided. But that in most cases they're not a good idea, for various reasons that should be obvious to most developers.

> I don't understand why you're so hung up on the history of this project.

I'm not hung up on this project at all. I have come across it, but I'm not a user. I simply stated an opinion that shouldn't be controversial at all, yet for some reason, I keep having to defend it. So it seems that it struck a nerve with fans of the project who would rather attack me personally than acknowledge the poor decisions made by its author.

> If we were talking about software being used to send people to space I could see your point

It's a very popular project that many projects depend on. Lives don't need to depend on it for it to be managed responsibly.

Anyway, I think we both have better things to do than waste anymore of our time on this discussion, so let's just drop it.