I think you would still have an artificial 1-second delay on any actions, which would be pretty annoying. I assume this controller acts this weird way since it

I think you would still have an artificial 1-second delay on any actions, which would be pretty annoying. I assume this controller acts this weird way since it is supposed to plug into an X-10 system, and the only control in an X-10 system is to turn the power on or off. The obvious way to control it is to turn the power on to raise or lower, but without power, it's hard to maintain state to know whether you want to raise or lower. So instead, it is always powered on, and they use the on-off-on transition to trigger an action. About the typical level of hack for X-10 hardware. If you aren't using an X-10 system, and want to manage the state yourself, all this is pointless, and I can see why someone would want to get rid of it.