I think the dirty little truth about Bitcoin development and developers is that the code is deliberately made difficult to understand but for only the few.   An alternative cleaner implementation like bitsofproof or conformal is actually internally frowned upon because it reveals the 'secrets' of Bitcoin. 

In typical open source projects developers will be rushing enmass into the better structured version of the code.  But not with this community.

The Bitcoin community is not based on 'sharing' and 'community' that one finds in other open source groups.  Rather is is based on entirely the opposite 'hoarding' and 'exclusivity'.  Where any alternative idea is shot down with the most violent of arguments.

It is the worse community I have ever been associatated with.