And so? It seems to me a very legit wish, they have tons of code to rewrite for little benefit. And this is the extreme opposite of just complaining: they took their critical missing component, ported to the new ide and released for everyone
(I used to program in Delphi back in high school, and so I am interested in the FPC/Lazarus news.. maybe it's finally time for me to go back to basics? But at least this article's main argument does not sound very compelling to me.)