this thing reminds me of the [something] paradox. humans maximize what they can use, not what they're able to do with it, unless forced to. modern day roombas h

this thing reminds me of the [something] paradox. humans maximize what they can use, not what they're able to do with it, unless forced to. modern day roombas have much more computing power than most (any?) computers did at the the time the Beast was created, but it performs essentially the same function. you could make the argument that the humans making the roomba spent less time/energy/money developing it with modern computing tech and high level languages than researchers did developing the Beast, but the apparent requirement of an increase of computing power by many orders of magnitude for a reduction of effort by one or two orders of magnitude is completely insane.