What old devices are we trying to support?

in the case of eg reactos and similar eg ravynos id agree

for plan9 / inferno it matters allot (afaik)

perhaps other metrics play a large part
eg
how you grow your code

.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar


this point was more about the possibilities
or lack there of
when marketing obfusticates verifiable details
see also (historically) tobacco-advertising


/os-tangent

…makes me think of
.Project Cecily - a zooming user interface for TiddlyWiki

which reminds me a bit of

which apparently also had a a [zooming user interface] (ZUI)