"They did it that way because they knew stuff I don't know". Or "They did what they did because they were the first one's to do it, and it only looks whack in

"They did it that way because they knew stuff I don't know". Or "They did what they did because they were the first one's to do it, and it only looks whack in hindsight" Or "They did what they did because they were living within totally different constraints - like having to support old crap browsers like ie9, or a 'lowest common denominator' of slow end-user PCs etc., or some old chipset on the firmware code they wrote, or some old language paradigm, old libraries etc."