User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Fandom is upgrading to a modern version of MediaWiki/@comment-11733175-20190623155321

These are impressive goals for such a hacked-apart codebase and big words for a development process that often has often felt like throwing ideas at a wall and seeing what sticks. This is what ends up being feature neglect because so many features get relatively little time to reach their potential or weren't great ideas in the first place.

What is slightly concerning is what this is dressed up as: implementing user feedback. I feel this is somewhat disingenuous when so many projects are only greenlit when they align with company needs. It just so happens that you have 2 different versions of mediawiki to support now after the gamepedia merge. For a company that declined to support 2 skins, I can only see this is the first step in unifying what is offered to wikis which ends up being cheaper in the long run.