The "best people", if they truly are best are getting paid a fortune for working on the most popular platform there is. Regardless of whether it sucks or not. If they wish to keep getting paid a fortune they damn well better be keeping their 32bit skills current.

"32Bit" is not to blame for your problems.
"32Bit" does not mean simply mean twice 16bit word length. Send me email if want a few lessons in understanding the differences. I would of sent this as email but you left no address. Please respect others of this forum and use email if you wish to continue this discussion.