Part of the problem is that martial arts and fitness aren't the same thing. Sure, some of the traditional warmups are outdated perhaps but others are there for a reason, even if the reason doesn't make sense by current exercise science standards. I wouldn't go throwing out stuff without a good reason.
Having said that, I myself have included a lot of stuff like planks, side planks, etc in the warmup for the taichi class that i teach. Many of those movements are very beneficial to beginning taichi players. But the static stretching is also very useful for taichi even if dynmaic stretching is in vogue right now.
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