I am skeptical about total reimaginations, and when I read this I started to take it as one of those airy "Dude, someone totally revolutionize this for me..." posts, but then I hit:

I’m working on this in my spare time, starting with...

and now I'm curious to see what the author comes up with.

There's just something about an actual tool, no matter how prototypical, that improves the discussion of new tools.