I think it is simple, in my experience your assertions are right on
the money.  They can't be bothered to learn it and/or they aren't good
enough to learn it.  If it is difficult for them to learn and/or they
cannot learn it then they are doomed to failure on the re-write as
they simply aren't good enough developers to redo it .    Act like a
developer: when your car runs badly, just melt it down and rebuild it
from scratch, that must be easier than understanding how it is broken
and fixing it.

Not sure how one believes if they cannot debug the last script/program
they wrote (or someone else did) that the new script/program will be
any different.   Developers seems to believe that all previous authors
were incompetent and did things for no good reason and that they can
do a significantly better job this time so want to start over.  Too
many people have told me that unlike the past team that failed using a
given process,this time we are going to do it the exact same way but
we are going to be perfect and not have the same issues and not fail.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:04 AM Tim via users
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 08:46 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> > One of the motivations for Wayland was that the X.Org was becoming
> > unmaintainable and suffered from design choices that are no longer
> > relevant.
>
> Is it really unmaintainable, or is it that programmers just cannot be
> arsed to learn how to maintain someone else's code?
>
> And how does one person determine that some features are no-longer
> needed?  It's quite clear that in several years of Wayland being around
> that various features needed by people using X have yet to be
> implemented.
>
> This whole idea of "I can't work on this, let's throw it all out and
> start again" is just incompetence.  And you'll find several OS projects
> that have spent many years, repeatedly going through that process and
> never actually coming to any fruition because of it.
>
> Don't let those people near the kernel code.
>
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>
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