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I am the original poster you're responding to. On the high level I agree with what good looks like - I'd strive to have all of these things in a system if I were the designer.

I am also recognizing that both you and I may not understand the complexity. Saying "X is being sent to ABC" may be a gross-oversimplification of the transaction and could obscure lots of badness. It's possible that the level of complexity of the screen IS what's needed to express it.

Analogy:

Would you expect to walk into the cockpit of an airliner and see a big dumb screen that tells the pilot "you are landing the plane?" or would you accept that it's a complicated serious of operations which the pilot understands by putting together the various bits of info on various instruments. Hope the parallel is clear.

Again, by no means am I insisting this is a great application (I don't know anything about it) but that you can only simplify the display of very complex state so much.




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