Also odd seeing how that kernal "hack" for one little feature ended up evolving into what it is today!

Yeah, cause software never evolves like that!

But hey, at least there was a capable programmer all the way through. Most software projects I've worked on start out with the least capable (usually a college student or intern making a simple program for a small task) and elevates in complexity until it gets into the hands of the most capable, at which point the programmer's hands are tied by poor design at the beginning (I've been a programmer at both stages, I must shamefully admit!). But I digress, clearly this was no such development effort!