Looks like a typical rant from a junior developer. More experienced developers realize why decades-old file formats are they way they are and when needing to work with them, adapt themselves to it.
Your comment sort of looks a bit like a senior developer who hasn't, you know, really achieved as much as they might have striking a pose against these pesky juniors who whatever else you think of them, really get some things done.
When you battle the darkness and smite it to get something working pretty well you have a right to do a little bit of editorializing in a comment. If you choose not to and save the rant for the bar on Friday evening or a blog post, that's ok too.
Of course looks can be deceptive and either or both of us could be wrong about how things "look."
Me? I appreciate a heartfelt "here there be dragons" in source with some reasoning and description, I may be too junior for your tastes. ;-)
Yeah it's easy to say "I could've done this better" without thinking about it too much.
I'm pretty much that the things guys like this are programming now (assuming they are going mainstream which I HIGHLY doubt) will be seen as cryptic and really naive when a programmer from 2036 looks into them.
