I really like your 3 tipped in favor of's. > If it's so easy, what's a good example of software that rides the line well? I agree with you that the GP was wro

I really like your 3 tipped in favor of's. > If it's so easy, what's a good example of software that rides the line well? I agree with you that the GP was wrong to claim that it's easy. But here is a way to get something better than we have, and that is, GUI control panels that read-and-writes the same text config files that the user can, and do so in a cooperative way. For example, if the grammar of the config file is such that there is NOT-more-than-one-way-to-do-it, then it doesn't matter if either a human or software updates the file. and if you want the UI to squelch the noisy details of what's happening, that's fine, but keep the log and make sure it's easy to get to.