This sort of comment that makes me uncomfortable. I don't understand the insistence that everything you do has to be harder than everything else, or that this d

This sort of comment that makes me uncomfortable. I don't understand the insistence that everything you do has to be harder than everything else, or that this doesn't have any meaning because modern engineering is harder. You see, you should be bragging that modern programming is easier. The whole point of evolving engineering is to make things easier -- what would be modern science and engineering good for if we had to build things this complicated from scratch? People (rational people, that is) don't choose a framework or method of doing things because it's hard; in fact, quite the opposite, they obviously go for the easier ones! The merit should be -- look what I can achieve with such beautiful simplicity. It is trivial to conceive a harder way of doing almost everything. In fact, if you look at the automata shown here, almost anyone with a tiny bit of programming knowledge and some hardware knowledge could build something similar with an arduino and some stepper motors.