Precisely:-)
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>>"dear user ...its a technical impossibility - the GUI behavior you wanted cannot be delivered ... you will have to accept drilling down 5 modal forms to get that piece of the data".
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>LOL
>That was nice. And true. Dumb GUIs talking to smart middle tier talking to smart servers al of them redunantly exchanging huge amount of data. And the end user experience is the same (or even worse) response time as 20 years ago.