[sverhagen]

Does that actually make sense, or is it just another Engineering team doubling down on their poor early architectural choices ("or lack thereof")?

[asciimike]

My understanding is that they needed some of the functionality in CoreGraphics, thus had to use Macs.

[mst]

Which, if it allows them to get better quality results with less engineering time, could totally turn out to have been a sensible business decision.

(no idea beyond "could", but it does at least seem plausible)