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The 3.x line is starting to look like the GEGL payoff that was promised fifteen years ago. Non-destructive editing on a codebase this old is genuinely hard — most projects of that age would have rewritten twice and lost the userbase in the process. The slow-and-stupid path turned out to be the right one.