(i myself have been as guilty as anyone of declaring a thing easy without the requisite experience. i have far too often been wrong about this, even for things that fall pretty well within my usual scope of work. you can take it too far the other direction, lord knows, but i'm earnestly trying to do this less. it _might_ be easy, sure, but until you have actually opened the box and made eye contact with the *particular* gremlins contained therein...)