Once you start working on what I'd call 'infrastructure" like automation, porting standard functionality to other languages and platforms, um, how do you say, 'efficiency expert modification' of your code, and figuring out the absolute quickest ways to accomplish your goals, I think you get further away from the original purpose of the device itself. You can spend years and years refining your scripts and tinkering with the bits to get it just right, and if that's what you enjoy doing, that is just plain awesome. Have fun. There is nothing wrong with that, just on a side note, if you have to repackage a channel 30 times per day, the same channel, and experiment by changing a line, zipping, and uploading, are you really leaning anything?
