> even if you do feel that it was heating up your CPU with ads - it would have taken a lot less than 8 years to fix that
They had more than 8 years to fix it on the desktop and didn't. They had more than 8 years to make the Mac version perform at rough parity with the Windows version and didn't.
Either way... "it's fine, we'll make it work well within a decade" is NOT a good message to your users.