[Intrawebs]

This is a balance one has to make when working for someone else. Often, all of your suggestions you made end up with more limitations than freedoms.

You need freedoms within apps that are going to be around for the long haul.

Example... Do I build an app in MOSS 2007 or simply use asp.net. Ya, then comes MOSS 2010 and you need to do a rewrite, if you used asp.net then there is no rewrite needed.