For the other Wipeout aficionados out there, note that there IS a modern game on Steam called BallisticNG. Supposedly created by (some of?) the original Wipeout developers. It was one of the first things I bought for my Steam Deck when it arrived. Unfortunately, I can't make heads or tails of it. It doesn't seem to be the kind of traditional Wipeout game where you start off with slow ships on slow maps and unlock more as you work your way up. In Ballistic NG, it seems like you just sorta pick your ship and and your map and then go racing against the AI. Or something like that. Maybe I just can't figure out the menus, I'm not sure.
All of this is a long-winded way of saying I support this rewrite and hope to see it evolve to adopt Wipeout XL/2097 features and maps eventually. (But not Wipeout 3, that was a disaster.)