the way I see it we're just at the beginning, and we're mainly copy/pasting a lot of code, we understand some small parts, and generally in the teenage years of genome programming.
I don't know how long it will be before we get a bit more serious with it, but geneticists have a big obstacle in their understanding, any change might needs a thousand strong lifelong population study to be understood. That's way crappier than dumping the assembly or only having the documentation in Chinese.
I will add that moreover the developers might have been even more conservative in their code because they knew it was going for large scale deployment, they probably avoided the cutting edge as much as they could.
I don't know how long it will be before we get a bit more serious with it, but geneticists have a big obstacle in their understanding, any change might needs a thousand strong lifelong population study to be understood. That's way crappier than dumping the assembly or only having the documentation in Chinese.
I will add that moreover the developers might have been even more conservative in their code because they knew it was going for large scale deployment, they probably avoided the cutting edge as much as they could.