I must admit, I am disappointed in the manner that stskeeps has chosen to respond, I had hoped he'd be able to enlighten us on at least some major points of contention/conjecture.

But I don't fully blame him, it's not even his area, other folks are handling this end of the product dev cycle. He shouldn't be the one that always "hoses down" these things, that's up to others (& if they were more proactive there'd be much less to "hose down") that we never hear from here, & barely @TJC too (by many accounts).