[lkirkwood]

Not entirely sure what you're looking for.

If you don't want to use the "artificial, unintuitive interface" (bit rude IMO) you could just google "best mario kart setup".

The selection of attributes is not exactly arbitrary. AFAIK speed has always been by far the dominant stat in mario kart, then acceleration. Choosing e.g. better handling at the expense of speed is an immediate disadvantage. If your problem is that this doesn't help you to choose atteibutes in the general case, take it up with the chaos of the natural world...

This article solves a problem people have (not knowing what setup to pick) in a very stylish way (subjective) and teaches the reader something along the way (what a Pareto frontier is).

Not a particularly constructive comment if you ask me.

[Etherlord87]

Just because the selection is "correct" (e.g. gives best results in practice) doesn't mean it's not arbitrary.

The article starts with the premise and fails to deliver. The visual layer of the article is nice. But ultimately the example of using the Pareto's frontier is a FAIL because it doesn't deliver on its promise of finding the best kart setup.