User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-44001775-20191016230556/@comment-24006128-20191016231547

No, we can't leave it the same. These are custom features designed for this special forked version of MediaWiki. We're moving to a 7 years newer version that brings a lot of improvements right out of the box, as well as some of our own flavors, but the outdated code which is tangled up in the platform now needs to be detangled for all of us to reap the benefits of the platform upgrade.