“it would be nice to have the flexibility of Movable Type, the parsing of Textpattern, the hackability of b2, and the ease of setup of Blogger. Someday, right?” Synthesis is a type of invention: https://evanm.website/2016/03/synthesis-over-invention/

>Another fork like b2evolution or any of the billion blogging tools at the time would have—

People love to say things like this about any and all products but there’s this overwhelming counterpoint of what actually happened.