[replax]

You might have misunderstood the sentence you are quoting. From my point of view, the quote and what you are saying are not different goals, just that your way of achieving that goal has to involve configuration and the quote's goal tries to do away with it. I completely agree with the quote, a program should do what the user wants it to do, without any config. However that is unfortunately not yet possible, as you are saying, but is certainly the desired end goal. If the program does what you want, >always<, then no configuration is needed because it could only defer from that goal. Therefore I believe the quote is a very good one, albeit somewhat philosophical.