While I read this thread I see how people make arguments and present working production solutions, but you often use 'terrible', 'horrible' and 'very' words to value them. Please don't take it as personal attack, but I think these words are purely emotional and should be thrown out of discussion. This is actually a rule for science papers in my country: you throw out all non-technical adjectives and auxiliary words and if text retains its sense, it is approved. If sentences begin to appear unfinished, then these are removed too, because they have no technical meaning.

We all love simple things, but many of presented techniques evolved over decades of real non-helloworld development, and not using these leads to programming errors and bloating again. All these people are not stupid — that's not 'look mom, without hands', that's professional experience.