When your project is such a size that a single person can keep it all more or less in their head (in this case, Evan), clean slate rewrites end up being fairly

When your project is such a size that a single person can keep it all more or less in their head (in this case, Evan), clean slate rewrites end up being fairly efficient. It's a much different case than 20->200->2000 devs scale applications. It's vastly more easy to develop something from scratch if you'd put a lot of thought into it over time