I think beacue powerup was nowhere near as fast as warpos
So it was all about the general (expected) suckiness of first PPC software?
Well I never noticed any noticeable speed difference between the two, but to me, warpos software seemed generally less stabile.
Shouldn't come as a surprise, as there are bugs that were never fixed. The one that prevents glquakewos from working on BPPC boards (except with MorphOS, which doesn't implement that particular bug)
No idea if someone added some workarounds to glquake later, but the point is the bug is still there.