It wasn't really faster. The OP actually touched on that point, but let me repeat it without ambiguity:

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.