That blog's background is 2.6 MB, perhaps you should compress it a bit.

Also, I think it's a bit disingenuous to compare a complex system built to various specific needs versus a simpler one that doesn't address those needs at all and just say "their only difference is that one worked and the other didn't".

Obviously, if the only criterion was that it should just work, everyone would go with the simpler system. The more complex system probably had some things going for it, too, otherwise nobody would choose it.