It appears that the design goals have changed. In the past, it seemed that the goal was to reduce the users to a quiet weeping. They have apparently escalated the goals to accomplish shrieking, hair pulling, and blaspheming in unknown languages before being reduced to weeping.
On the positive side, it used to be that I actually had to accomplish my design goals to feel accomplishment. Now, if I get the silly box of switches to do ANYTHING it feels like a major accomplishment.