In reply to Terence.

Absolutely- :)

And then, there might be more things going on than what we see- may be the rapid changes on WordPress the software- getting somewhere so fast that it doesn't make sense to optimize decade old things on WordPress.org- may be tons of things are already became so obsolete that the whole needs a make over.

The best of the echo-system is that, like you've said, the community will find one way or another- to get it right, at the right time- ;)