[tom_]

They are optimizing, probably. Thanks to the internet, knowledge sharing is substantially simplified compared to the 1990s, and it's massively easier to find people to collaborate with. Hard to understate how difficult it was to find useful info back in the day.

Additionally, anybody that grew up coding on the Amiga has had 30, 35 years to think about it since! - and they are probably still young enough (or, more accurately, probably not yet properly old enough...) that time has, for now, added more to their abilities than it has taken away.

And: modern PCs are ridiculously fast! A table or routine that would have taken your Amiga days to produce, even assuming you'd have considered the idea feasible in the first place ("b-but - you'd need a temporary 512 MByte table for that!!") can be generated in 5 minutes with some python code on your 10 year old laptop.