Quirky - that is what I am talking about

[fcwilt]

in many ways we are talking about apples and oranges.

I believe you are correct. But I think we may be dealing with a change in technology\culture\something.

Think back to the time when scribes labored over desks, copying books by hand, doing beautiful illuminated letters. Now we have printing presses, publication for the masses at low cost, publications scanned into computers and delivered via the internet to e-book readers. Cost, not beauty, drives the mass market.

Blue prints were once blue, then one day along came Xerox and things changed.

Folks used to talk on phones, now it seems, sometimes, that texting is taking over.

The artistic element of this business may be facing a similar change with the advent of fast computers, ink jet printers and software like CA.

I don't think most builders care if someone labored with love and care over a beautiful set of plans - they have work to do and as long as the plans allow that, they are good to go.

Someone, who's name escapes me, said something to the effect that things need to be adequate to the task at hand and no more.

When it comes to providing visuals that allow the customer to understand what is to be built and documents for the builder that allow him to do his job, CA is more then adequate.

In very broad terms the question becomes, does the world, at this point, need anything more, to do what needs to be done?