Maybe it has to do with differences in approach? It's basically a Plane of Theseus now, by the sound of it. I imagine that the Smithsonian would care more about

Maybe it has to do with differences in approach? It's basically a Plane of Theseus now, by the sound of it. I imagine that the Smithsonian would care more about "original" than "looks/works the way it did in its own time."