Yeah, well still shows they had rookies working on it. I doubt Akamatsu would have let something like that get past the planning stage. He'd look at the code, say, "what the hell does this do?" and when the poor programmer told him it reorients the player on the platform, Akamatsu would probably smack him upside the head and tell him to rewrite it.
But whatever. I have that old schooler award in my avatar for a reason.