Honestly I have to suppress the urge to laugh heartily at this statement while I recall all the times over my career that I've seen software rewritten and reinvented not only for no tangible gain, but often to its determent!

I mean, my god man, we currently work in an industry where it is considered reasonable to have a chat program take seconds to load and occupy gigabytes of memory, where the addition a one-off uncustomizable theme is a headline worthy event, and a 1.5Ghz proc with 8GB RAM that runs off <5W is considered 'woefully inadequate' to run desktop software.

I'll say this for current tech though: the high-end computer games look really really good.