[dleslie]

That was also their golden era for quality products.

I cannot claim to know why they did this, but my educated/experienced guess as a long-time game developer is that _someone_ thought it would be best for the teams not to rely upon existing projects when creating new ones.

Imagine if painters always started from their previous painting rather than a blank canvas; or if a home developer always started with prefabs of their previous home. You'd get American suburbs and Ikea prints.

[abecedarius]

Imagine if we did this for operating systems. I want to believe.