Originally Posted by
WannaTheater
From a software engineering standpoint, the driving force may have been about replacing an obsolete and unsupported core platform, not necessarily new features.
Sometimes you need to temporarily step back to move forward.
I believe that there was some discussion on this upstream. As I recall the original website was running on old and unsupported technology. And we are also talking about restoring features that have been lost in the product over the last 3 or 4 years as well. My estimate is that the current product provides about one third of the functionality that the original version had.