Thanks for the feedback.  These are all great ideas, and we have talked about doing something along these lines ourselves.  The main problem is logistics.  Doing a simpler algorithm that follows the ten knob paradigm is something that one person can do in a reasonable amount of time.  Doing something like you're describing would involve more people and take more time and pull them away from other things they might be working on…  I do hope we'll get to something like this though.