This began with an enquiry as to whether a Harmony could provide
"everything i need...which is the activity macros, and then the individual controlling of each component".
No-one has proved that it couldn't, and I guess that the same would apply to the requirement of the vast majority of others.
I've learned something in this - that there is a profession of people who fix people up with remote control systems in their homes - though I still don't know what CI stands for, but don't worry, I can guess.
Those people and the people who use Harmonys must live in separate worlds, and that simply makes meaningless any comparison between Harmonys and all these remotes known only by initials.
Smokinghot is so good at evading the point that I surrender to him, but must add another one to PhotoDan's quotations from him: "biggest knuckle dragging mouth breather". I don't know what it means but it looks both "surly" and "hostile".