wowe more useless features thanks mojang!!! WHY DONT U MAKE UR FUCING GAME RUN BETER ASSHOELS - half the posters in this thread
Think of it like this - They hired modders. Don't think of him as Mojang staff - think of him as a portal for simple cool changes people have wanted to get in. While it isn't productive and that sucks to stuff, at least the little nice changes are coming around. Don't give them hard feelings.
He actually announced something else: The new texture format will be in Minecraft 1.5. Textures will be changed, but be much more compatible, native support for high definition textures, texture animations, etc. AKA they are breaking all old texture packs but you don't need mods to do this stuff anymore.