"Simply" not true. Prodigy was designed to provide a cost effective solution to products that installers were going up against in estimates. The entire "point" of Crestron technology is it's bag of tricks and power. While it has been marketed as a wizard it can be a very effective system with a much higher celing for customization than what it says on the box. Crestron needed a system in this price category and this is it. What you do with it is limited only to your resources.