Matthew
It looks to me that some scientific based reasoning would probably have cut short many of these discussions. Over and over again some topics resurface...
If you argue that simplification is OK for a pilot that -just- has to fly the thing, then that is OK with me, there are more important things to learn. As long as these pilots know that when they start making great theories, they may be way out of bounds off from what they have been thought.
d3