i don't really think it's about hardware support, as much as it is about Gridcoin becoming the deciding factor as to what science is valuable/worth crunching. this is very dangerous territory, and the removal of moo has set precedent to a degree.

i know the argument is "they don't have to crunch Gridcoin-whitelisted projects", but that's also very out of line with "we encourage all new users to join Gridcoin"... and i contest that we removed a large portion of magnitude from lower-end GPU users, and shunted it to people that could already afford more capable cards, i.e. whales.

i can't get my older AMD cards to run on anything but moo. even collatz is throwing errors lately... that said, i would argue collatz is a more useless project than moo, as it doesn't have a finite goal. this is exactly why personal opinion has to be kept out of it. otherwise, we'll be left crunching 3 "approved" projects, and the laughing stock of the distributed community.

we should not seek to remove projects outside of extenuating circumstances such as sourcefinder, or there is evidence of cheating/spoofing.

also, you also touched on something @fkinglag and i were talking about recently... we are trying to get together some developers to make opencl and cuda apps for even simple parallelization of cpu-only BOINC projects. it could end up being one of our more valuable contributions to BOINC. <3