For example, KNIME delayed moving to CDK 1.2 because of the lack of the renderer. Another project that really wanted to have the renderer was Ruby CDK (rcdk-ng, but not the same as the R rcdk package :), originally started by Rich, now maintained by Sebastian Klemm at the Institute for Pharmatechnology of the University of Applied Science, Switzerland.
Ruby CDK is a web environment for molecular structures, and based on the new rendering code, it looks like (copyright by Sebastian):
