You are misunderstanding judgment, my friend. My only critique on your judgment of someone else was that you are placing your own values and experiences upon what you expect from others.
Yes, there has ... it is the conversion of all the art to 16:9 (which is done) and then the repositioning/posing of every one of the characters in the new format, as well as updating all the code that was written by several different coders into one style with proper tagging, flagging, variable tracking, etc. Essentially everything that had been done for 4 years prior to the start of the update was getting an update, techwise.