No, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that instead of directly targeting the issue as we might want them to, they might take the back door approach to do the much same thing in a much more efficient manner.
Take site incompatibilities for example. Opera could have just patched those problems with browser.js. That may have been very thorough, but it would have bloated Opera terribly. Instead, they introduced an all-new HTML5 parser that fixed 30% of those problems. Rendering engine updates in the future may continue to fix more of these site incompatibility problems.
What I’m saying is that what seems like the most direct approach to us may not actually be the most efficient way to fix it. Since Opera’s HWA is still rough around the corners, refining the HWA feature may fix some of the scrolling problems. Then, if there is still an issue and many people are still complaining, they may directly address the issue.