"the template system started turning into an ugly programming language" - ah, any sufficiently complex system eventually evolves to contain a limited, broken version of Common Lisp. Stop delaying the inevitable!
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When Nvidia puts out a $500 card, it's attractively priced. When AMD puts out a faster card for 10% less, it draws complaints about the price from the same reviewer. What gives?
To be fair, that review you linked is from November 2010. Perhaps second-hand 580s are better value or something.
69 dude!
This is odd, all the blood is draining out of his brain, and a small tent has appeared in his.... oh!
Where there's a will, there's a relative.