[ptudan]

Or, they could have built a system capable of having a bunch of different knobs and levers that each CBA represents.

Life is complex, technology should support that. We should not have to dumb life down to match.

[stavros]

> Life is complex, technology should support that. We should not have to dumb life down to match.

This sentence implies that the opposite of "complex" is "dumb", though.

[ptudan]

Ignoring that this is pointless pedantry, I don't really think so. I think it says that complex is on the high end of the scale, and dumbing something down slides it towards the low end of simple.

[stavros]

I think things can be simpler without being dumb.