generalfrevious said:
He's not warming up to anything. He just wanted to twist the knife in our hearts by releasing the product we want but making it so shockingly substandard we would not want to buy it.

I don't think it was meanly aimed at us. I think it was released that way so that the throngs of idiots that make up most of the population would believe that is the way the OT looked, and provide proof that his SE was an improvement. He knew that most people would be stupid enough to believe it, and unfortunately he was right. It was strategically aimed at everyone else, not us.