This is a bit cynical (and borderline paranoid) but what if the reason for the rewrite was to remove privacy-violating code that was becoming a greater and grea

This is a bit cynical (and borderline paranoid) but what if the reason for the rewrite was to remove privacy-violating code that was becoming a greater and greater liability? Also, wonder if they needed to do this to make way for end-to-end encryption we've been hearing about?