Just one word - TRUE. There's nothing more important for Dolphin now than a simple, easy and effective upgrade path. And, yes, we are far from there.

Complete remake also doesn't sound cool though. So, we'd have to do it step by step. In fact we've being doing that for a while. Those who knows older aeDating versions can tell about php/html mess, difficult installation process, difference in templates functionality. We've already made huge advancements and will keep on improving.

Your post see more raises this topic again and we'll try to address the issue in 6.1 as much as possible.