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I think the best way to summarize my views are that he's yet another technologist that's lost the ability to understand that more isn't inherently better.
I'm biased from industrial experience, but in my world drop dead simple beats price unless we're talking about truly substantial price disparities. Consistency is very hard to put a monetary value on, and technologists forget that there will always be a new latest and greatest thing for them to be chasing. Resistive heaters are garbage, but they're also as simple as it gets, and can be put practically anywhere. That's why we put them in EVs, especially luxury ones. Hot air blowing on your legs from the back of your seat is a pain to do with a centralized heat source from a heat pump, but you can slap a small resistive heater under the seat, run a power cable to it, and viola, hot air on demand with no warmup time just by blowing air through a duct. Same concept with defrosters on your windows, heaters in your mirrors to keep them fog free, etc. Do you want to run fluids and exchangers all over, or a few dollars worth of copper? Which one will survive a decade of neglect because nobody maintains their cars?
I will give him credit for one topic though. His rants about christmas lights are correct. I independently discovered the true-tone bulbs and have been quite happy with them. They're not perfect replicas, but they're good enough, and I'm probably going to buy a lot more for different seasons for next year if they hold up through a second winter here with no discernable damage.
>forcing the quirkyness
Haven't watched anything of his in over a year at this point, but if he's going hardcore after engagement, it's only a matter of time until he burns out or starts churning out straight slop. One way or another, it's only going to go downhill from there.
