The point is that since it will be incompatible anyway, why keep all the legacy problems too? Give people a new reason to use the OS besides using 20 year old software or program like you did 20 years ago.

There are a lot of people saying the same thing: they want an AmigaOS but modern so let's drop the legacy software and be done with it. Those who are only interested in 3.1 will never go NG anyway so their opinions don't count.

I don't see why dropping datatypes would mean that this new OS would become basically a Linux with an AmigaOS skin. Most things would still be there, including the kernel. I think you are reading in too much with what has been said.

@bigfoot

I so hope I will experence this new OS someday not in the far future