I'll admit, I didn't actually read the codebase. I just took the notes at face value. I agree. People are harsh in review of themselves. To your second point:

I'll admit, I didn't actually read the codebase. I just took the notes at face value. I agree. People are harsh in review of themselves. To your second point: I think it's a matter of size for a project becoming spaghettified. ffmpeg is mature and massive, so it's no surprise it's jumbled at this point. For a project of 4coder's scale, I'd wager that being open source sooner would've benefitted its design. But, it's in the past. I'm just glad the dev left the code in the community's hands before dropping it. A lot of devs don't even do that, and the project becomes history.