I think the rewrite will end up being more expensive (for the same quality) because AI was used.

At the same time this specific rewrite is being used to drive the narrative that reading the code is counterproductive.

If they had delivered their promises, they might have convincingly delivered that argument.

...but the cost keeps going up and up and up and up! If it was only the token costs it might still be economically viable, but I'm imagining that when you add in the pro-rated salaries of the human engineers this would start to look like a financial blunder even if it released today.

It's true that I don't want a success story told about a failure, because then replicating the "success" would likely produce lots more bad outcomes