[pookiesbutt]

I agree with your first point, You cannot judge all by one.

It could be a student learning. Learning does involve initiative. However, learning from the top of the tree does not teach you much about its roots or environment.

I believe Richard Gabriel addressed your last point. See: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

That is not an insult, it is a truth. People, business especially, produce and request minority feature-sets for majority demands. See: design by committee, almost any production automobile, the majority of mobile phones, etc, etc.