[srush]

(I'm the author)

Thanks this is really helpful. I agree with the points being made. The post started out with the hypothesis, "look this basically works as is", but the conclusion of the UX experiments seems to be "the idealistic API forces a jarring style change". I'll step back and think it through a bit more.

My sense from your comments is that the ideal useful/usable library would offer most of the benefits of the first post, while being basically be compatible with the torch API? Or at least that should be the number one priority to aim for from the pragmatic perspective.