Reserve judgement lest thou be judged too...
After submiting my last post (rant), I re-read it and had a thought occur. Maybe I too should show humility and take the optimistic view that the developers of these projects really did have good reasons for their reinventions and innovations.
Perhaps somewhere in this world is a developer looking at old code that I wrote, saying "WTF!?!?". I'm sure I too had a reason...