GNOME, 2020: > The entire backgrounds panel was rewritten from scratch, so technically every single feature that it had was momentarily removed and then most w

GNOME, 2020: > The entire backgrounds panel was rewritten from scratch, so technically every single feature that it had was momentarily removed and then most were subsequently re-added as entirely new implementations. jwz, 2003: > I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch -- and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version. [...] It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing.