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Some people love the original Flite, no point changing if it suits your arse.
The X-Lite post works as well as anything modern with the same layback, again no point changing for changes' sake.
4-piston caliper on a 160mm rotor may or may not be enough brake - single speeds go as fast downhill as other bikes, and fat blokes take a lot of stopping. I've got 4-piston XT brakes and a 200mm rotor on my single speed.
Vertical dropouts and a tensioner is a set up which has some advantages over horizontal dropouts, so I wouldn't criticise it for that even though I went the other way with mine.
Overall, that doesn't look like a build put together with the hope of achieving porn status, it looks like something thrown together from what was handy and functional.