Potential upgrades for USMC rifles?

I was really going to leave this alone but this part has me saying WTF!  via Firearms Blog...

Current M16A4 rifles and M4 carbines could get a significant overhaul with mostly inexpensive components already available to consumers. The upgrades would drastically improve accuracy and function without incurring the expense of procuring an new rifle.
Those updates could include a free-floating barrel, rifle compensators, new reticles for the Rifle Combat Optic, more ambidextrous controls and a new trigger group. With significant advancements in rifle technology for the civilian shooting market over the past two decades, those are all features commonly seen on competition rifles and those carried by elite operators.

I don't know how this will washout but I'm seeing something that I personally feel is disturbing.

They're talking about compensators, match triggers, free floating barrels....are they building a combat or competition rifle?

It seems like the idea of having a weapon that is robust and can survive in the muck and mud is out the door.  Is the USMC really going down the road of building race guns?

After the M27 confidence is not high.