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The problem is beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I've been around long enough to see a few cycles of "best thing ever" -> "never do this". Each time massive disruptive changes were done to the code base, and each time they were simply ripping out last cycle's fad.

Certainly there are new things under the sun, but one should try and be respectful of what has come before. It wasn't all crap.