Yes, that's certainly true. Yet that's kind of my point; saying to "never" do something like a full rewrite is a bit extreme because it's almost entirely situational. Now while I do share a general pessimism on rewrites, they can be appropriate. Money and power of course help with that.
> No doubt any new product will be created by youngsters that despise 90s pragmatism, local data model, and lack of telemetry. Meaning it won’t be a product for me.
*sigh* Yes.
Although LibreOffice has one thing going for it in that regard... which is that it seems less likely that youngsters would even be interested in creating a word processor to replace the legacy LibreOffice. Many of them may not even know what LibreOffice is. Unless the word "blockchain" became attached to it (don't get any ideas, kids!), word processors are boring. If a rewrite ever happens, maybe there's at least a slight chance the engineers will be some coding veterans with wizard beards.
> No doubt any new product will be created by youngsters that despise 90s pragmatism, local data model, and lack of telemetry. Meaning it won’t be a product for me.
*sigh* Yes.
Although LibreOffice has one thing going for it in that regard... which is that it seems less likely that youngsters would even be interested in creating a word processor to replace the legacy LibreOffice. Many of them may not even know what LibreOffice is. Unless the word "blockchain" became attached to it (don't get any ideas, kids!), word processors are boring. If a rewrite ever happens, maybe there's at least a slight chance the engineers will be some coding veterans with wizard beards.