> suburban-style layouts create long commutes and regular traffic jams in electronic circuits > millions of "vias," which play the role of tiny electronic elev

> suburban-style layouts create long commutes and regular traffic jams in electronic circuits > millions of "vias," which play the role of tiny electronic elevators Is it unreasonable to suggest that maybe there is such a thing as trying too hard to avoid scaring people with technicalities? I mean, I get it, they made a neat skyscraper-versus-suburban analogy. Fair enough. But why not "just as suburban layouts in cities can mean long commutes and regular traffic jams, suburban layouts in chips can mean signals take longer to get from one place to another" or something?