"too lazy" seems like an unfair characterization. If a service lets you do what you want faster, why not use it? I'm not familiar with Kimono, but if you can just rip it out and replace it with your own code later, why not?
An actual parser for the complex use-cases requires some custom code and isn't covered by what Kimono does.
What Kimono does can trivially be achieved by writing 15 lines of python (after importing httplib2 + BeautifulSoup). Which is even reusable.
The only real use-case they had was the visual interface, so that "non-programmers can do it. No code required, etc. etc." Heh. As if that ever did, or ever could work.
translating for the Palantir's business - "a DHS/FBI/CIA analyst can dot it. No code required" Easy scraping websites for terms like "subversion", "Arab", "airplane" (cue starting scenes from Harold & Kumar 2) ...
You know what else has a visual interface? Excel. It works great! For "trivial problems." It gets stretched all the time into places where programming would have been faster, but for the "trivial problems", just being able to have a domain-expert non-programmer use Excel to implement the solution directly, is a lot faster and simpler than calling in a programmer and attempting to fully specify the problem to them.
For example, I hit an issue when using Kimono where it refused to accept a given regular expression as valid, even after trying testing many variations which passed a regex checker. If I had just started with Python/BeautifulSoup, I could have completed the entire scraper in that time.