Andrew Nacin was just talking about the idea of a "BackPress" yesterday on Twitter. The core team doesn't want to maintain the mess, but their hands are largely

Andrew Nacin was just talking about the idea of a "BackPress" yesterday on Twitter. The core team doesn't want to maintain the mess, but their hands are largely tied by backwards compatibility. Here's the conversation: https://twitter.com/nathanrice/status/479276072115396608 https://twitter.com/nathanrice/status/479276072115396608 There's already been a lot of work to abstract away poorly-written core functionality into classes. The problem is every time you clean up a section of core, you need to build a bunch of facades so the theme someone bought five years ago still works. It's extra work and a lot of testing.