[rstat1]

So instead of making an app people can actually use (outside of the 10 people with Macs) they're rewriting large parts of it instead?

Makes sense..

[0x6c6f6c]

Read literally the first paragraph and you'd already see that's what this is a precursor to.

> We've also laid down a solid foundation for upcoming improvements such as multi-platform support

The old UI may have been terribly written to support anything other than macOS. A rewrite is the right play if you identify that.