We probably don't disagree here, because "clever" interfaces generally annoy me, I just think in terms of priorities interface matters more than implementation

We probably don't disagree here, because "clever" interfaces generally annoy me, I just think in terms of priorities interface matters more than implementation elegance. A confusing implementation might waste a few people's time, but a bad interface can waste hundreds\thousands of peoples time. (if you ever worked with COM or Win32 apis you probably feel my pain)