They’re okay with it because the rewrite is in their preferred language.
Can someone explain to me this analogy? Because I consider sliced bread as decline. But maybe that is cultural thing.
(yes, I don't really get it either)
If cooking is a hobby for you, you're seeking labor. Maybe that makes the obvious unintelligible. If you're poor and have a bunch of hungry kids waiting, you don't want the cutting board covering up half your counter space while you're carefully trying not to screw up eight slices of bread before something on the stove burns.
Isn't this testing what they're doing now, which is what is exposing the bugs that need to be fixed?
There surely would be a more beneficial undertaking somewhere else. If then you’d argue that they may do as they please with their time, fair, but then let’s not pretend this rewrite has any objective value aside from scratching personal itches and learning how cat and co are implemented.
It wasn't "worth it" at all.