I wonder who may have an incentive to code up an alternative implementation? Maybe somebody who already has millions of dollars tied up in capital equipment - someone whose continued profitability requires making any optimization allowed by the protocol...
I'd be happy to write a new client with emphasis purely on performance and scalability from scratch... if someone wanted to throw large sums of money at me to do so and keep sending me more indefinitely to maintain and update it.It's a bit the idea with how im doing purenode
https://github.com/iadix/purenode
And there is already a multi thread sse raytracer that works with it