I don't understand the hostility to this application. Progress comes from trying different ways to do things. I tried this program a few years back, and thought

I don't understand the hostility to this application. Progress comes from trying different ways to do things. I tried this program a few years back, and thought it was ok. It is easier to use than JMP, which some others have mentioned, though not as powerful. There is nothing about easy-to-use that precludes understanding, and certainly nothing about difficult-to-use that promotes it. They are largely orthogonal. Using R doesn't make you a statistician, any more than using C++ makes you a software engineer. If anything, a simple interface can reduce the number of ways you can shoot yourself, and leaves more time to focus on the problem. Being easy-to-use may be the difference between some analysis and no analysis, or at best, analysis by spreadsheet. And finally, this is Hacker News. The author wrote this software and makes some money off it. Great. Isn't that what this place is all about?