Haha, I don't know if I buy that, since I've been around commercial EDA and ATE software, where you could have a decade of cruft and layered products to work on

Haha, I don't know if I buy that, since I've been around commercial EDA and ATE software, where you could have a decade of cruft and layered products to work on top of. But wider adoption of vendor tools such as MKL has certainly improved the issue.