>> It has a morass of serious issues untouched by these modifications.

> Such as..?

Err, that's not what begging the question means. It means you are avoiding a question. I didn't realize he was using it in the colliqual way since it was kind of a strange way of using it there too (it's usually in the form "that begs the question: X?").

@d23: You are correct, I used "begging the question" incorrectly, raising the ire of HN language pedants everywhere. :-p