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So instead of making an app people can actually use (outside of the 10 people with Macs) they're rewriting large parts of it instead?

Makes sense..

Read literally the first paragraph and you'd already see that's what this is a precursor to.

> We've also laid down a solid foundation for upcoming improvements such as multi-platform support

The old UI may have been terribly written to support anything other than macOS. A rewrite is the right play if you identify that.