It was not a trade off being made. The point and click UI could no longer meet the requirements. That's what he was getting at saying the legalese was turing complete. The requirements the law now mandated required an actual language to to implement because the old system with ACL's can't do the job anymore.
That the new system doesn't have a point and click UI isn't a trade off, it's just a consequence. He wasn't trading a complex system for a simpler system, he was replacing a complex system that could no longer work with a simpler one that could.
And while not being a programmer doesn't mean you're an idiot, not being able to learn some simple scripting to modify rules does make you an idiot. If your job requires you to modify the rules, and you can't learn to do it, you're dumb. All intelligent people are capable of learning some simple scripting.
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It was not a trade off being made. The point and click UI could no longer meet the requirements. That's what he was getting at saying the legalese was turing complete. The requirements the law now mandated required an actual language to to implement because the old system with ACL's can't do the job anymore.
That the new system doesn't have a point and click UI isn't a trade off, it's just a consequence. He wasn't trading a complex system for a simpler system, he was replacing a complex system that could no longer work with a simpler one that could.
And while not being a programmer doesn't mean you're an idiot, not being able to learn some simple scripting to modify rules does make you an idiot. If your job requires you to modify the rules, and you can't learn to do it, you're dumb. All intelligent people are capable of learning some simple scripting.