My guess is that if there were clear answers to those questions then the project might not have been shutdown. The hope is that someone or some other project mi

My guess is that if there were clear answers to those questions then the project might not have been shutdown. The hope is that someone or some other project might find a piece of this useful, or more optimistically that someone will find a way past any of the problems that made X take a pass on it. Or if none of that happens, at the very least it serves as a free bit of knowledge telling others going down this path "it didn't work"