Ok? Not sure what you want to talk about here, you probably need to give us a bit more context, especially if you even acknowledge you haven't even opened up th

Ok? Not sure what you want to talk about here, you probably need to give us a bit more context, especially if you even acknowledge you haven't even opened up the article to talk about the submission itself... Sometimes, the situation when something gets created and designed, looks very different from the current situation you're in N years later. So what might have looked like a boneheaded decision, could have been the best decision at that point. But us engineers like to lament our predecessors' code, I'm guilty of this sometimes too. But I try to remember that I don't have the full context of how things were when the code was initially written.