Looks like new maintainers took control and decided the old codebase wasn't to their liking. Thing is, these changes come with loads of tradeoffs the newcomers

Looks like new maintainers took control and decided the old codebase wasn't to their liking. Thing is, these changes come with loads of tradeoffs the newcomers usually are completely oblivious to and the new product is of lesser quality than the original, but they feel good about themselves now :)