I think toenail meant less "will no one rid me of this turbulent reader?", and more "if it were really so bad, then someone would have written some sort of alternative solution already." (I'm not sure I agree with the assertion, but, if I've read it correctly, then "fire up your IDE" doesn't seem to address it.)

Not the original commenter, but if the code is as messy as the blog post states, a fork might not be the ideal choice. Might be better to start cutting out libraries, then implement bespoke, feature-specific applications on top of them.