This was introduced for interoperability with operating systems that
might prefer such setup (I heard that Windows prefers this about a
decade ago, but I don't have any personal experience with it).
However, using different VID/PID between DFU and RT breaks usability of
dfu-util, and I really think this matters much more to our users and
developers.
* we now actually route the EP0 control requests in DFU mode to the
correct handler (weak linker symbols are tricky)
* we now actually call code to read/write data from/to RAM/FLASH
This way we can easily check with 'diff' for differences in our code and
Atmel softpack. Also, this layout is more suitable for building various
different firmware images (e.g. factory-test, dfu-loader, main
application) for a variety of different boards (simtrace, owhw, qmod).