The other big nuisance of the MT is that its state is huge -- the most common version, MT19937, has ~2500 bytes of state and generates 32-bit numbers. A very good 64-bit PRNG only needs 16 bytes of state and a very good 32-bit PRNG only needs 8 bytes of state. That's >300x smaller. This is somewhat related to it being slow, of course, but also somewhat orthogonal.