I was with you, right up until you said &quot;Out with the old, and in with the new.&quot;<p>You&#x27;re first paragraph is spot on. But.<p>The next step is, DIY tractors, as if they were hot rod motorcycles, since, let&#x27;s be honest... Tractors are NOT high technology items.<p>Okay, so tractors aren&#x27;t as sexy as motorcyles, and gear heads don&#x27;t cut their teeth on John Deer. So... just buy ordinary tractors, why not? They are basically covered wagons with motors, and attached shovels. They scrape dirt. They sift potatoes out of mud.<p>Why do tractors need horrendously advanced software at all? How complicated is a riding lawn mower?<p>These are not jumbo jets with multi-core governed CPU voting systems. Tractors don&#x27;t have ailerons that need to adjust pitch and yaw at hypersonic velocities.<p>They fucking creep along at like 5MPH. Christ.<p>Then, after that one little nitpick, I&#x27;m with you all the way.