I heard rumors that there were several areas of the original BeOS code that were hackish and problematic, and that Haiku being a clean break is actually a good

I heard rumors that there were several areas of the original BeOS code that were hackish and problematic, and that Haiku being a clean break is actually a good thing. Will not be able to give you a reference to that, but hoping someone familiar with the situation might confirm/disprove this for us.