I kind of agree with you. One of the biggest problems with the Amiga community right now is Amiga Inc.. They own Workbench and Kickstart. We have new Amiga compatible hardware. That problem has been taken care of. We just have now way of running our old software. If AROS were made to run on the 68k and be fully binary compatible with AmigaOS, we would have a solid place to start, and the term 'Amiga like' could be replaced with 'Aros like'. This would allow the community to cut the line to the anchor that is Amiga Inc.
From there, upgrades and rewrites could happen in a more useful fashion. The biggest thing about any future incompatible version of AROS is the ability for the OS to identify the version of an application that is required to run the code.
As far as I know, to date every platform leaves it to the application to make sure that it is compatible with the OS it runs on. This means that when the application is abandoned, (as most Amiga software is) it quickly becomes unusable on new versions of the OS.
If the OS asks the application what version it runs on, it can sandbox anything that is no longer compatible, and seamlessly run it in a compatible environment.
