Yeah, I agree with this. I think when I posted this I was fairly caught up in my ongoing frustration with this issue. That being said, I'm a developer in my 20s. I wasn't around when a lot of this was actually happening. For the most part, I've relived it through mailing lists and blog posts over the 3ish years I've been an avid user of ffmpeg. I think that tends to skew my historical perspective unfairly. In other words, the perspective and history is very much appreciated.