@Theguypc: I have to second you here on calling it a day with D7 and focusing efforts on D8/Trident from a clean platform and without the clutter of the old codebase (which is a mish-mash of versions from the days of AEdating).

Somehow the whole of the Dolphin 7 saga reminds me of the Windows Vista release... Massive hype, all sorts of things rolling in --- except they are really only rolling in for the "next" version, and as it stands we're dealing with bubblegum patches from here into see more the foreseeable future.

I do have sympathy for the guys trying to fix up D7 though --- while chipping away many of the bugs reported for D7 would be a small issue if you were on a solid framework, with D7 you would have to pay me a LARGE amount of money to roll up my sleeves and start debugging and patching all the problems... (Somewhere in the larger five digits, and feel free to ask more if someone wants to take me/us up on the offer. I'm all for extreme sports.)