I'm not that familiar with the development history of this game, but if my knowledge is correct, DC did the coding and the art in the beginning. So, this tech update was started to untangle his 'spaghetti code' and to make the game wide screen among other smaller stuff, right? And he's got a couple of coders to do this, correct?
With all that said, DC could have learned python (I'm talking about vanilla python, outside of ren'py), developing in ren'py at an advanced level, clean code principles, and all that is required for professional development. Did he try to become better or is he just focusing on art?