[com2kid]

> All of this sounds to me like arrogant ramblings of people who like authoritarianism and can't grasp the concept of personal freedom and that people like homes that are wacky and extension of their own egos and sense of pride in their financial success.

He's complaining about stupidity such as having a row of windows, with each window being a different random style.

If I was a web designer, and I insisted that every letter on a website was in a different font, everyone else would tell me to stop being such an asshole.

These homes aren't wacky, they are built by builders who kept cutting costs and cutting costs until they were left with the most cost efficient subset of features.

Another analogy to software, imagine if to save on dev time, a random half of every dialog box in an app was just left blank. Maybe some of those buttons were needed, maybe they weren't, whatever, it got out on time!