I am not a crestron dealer (yet) and have thought about doing c4 but cant bring my self to it. Like Sofa King said this maybe a stepping stone for us smaller companies and for customers to not get the full blown "Crestron system" and then love it so much would be willing to go for it in their new home.

My guess as to not allow the gear to work with the other stuff is it allows actual dealers to keep with what they know best and leave the smaller stuff to us guys as not to keep us out of our "comfort zone". I would hope it would be similar in the programing aspect that if we decided to become a full Creston dealer we would just build off of our "simple" knowledge.

IMO of course.