My point is this: how many people are there as motivated as op? Motivated enough to comment on an obscure website in hopes of being pointed in the right direction?
Perhaps maybe the disconnect is in that I -- and maybe op as well -- are thinking in the context of people as a whole, and you are thinking in the context of people as members HN.
Lets talk about "people as a whole" who are interested in "a few clicks access to congressional district demographics." You think it is too much to ask to have them type "congressional district demographics" into a search box? If you put this search into google "My Congressional District" is the first result. I don't know how you make that any easier to find short of creating a mind reading application.
>You think it is too much to ask to have them type "congressional district demographics"..
For the majority of the (US at least) population? Absolutely yes. Hence the term "circumvention". No way this fight is won, at least at this point, over a battle of logic.
In this day and age, instigating change needs to be as simple as possible.
Maybe what I'm saying doesn't make sense. If so, apologies.
Perhaps maybe the disconnect is in that I -- and maybe op as well -- are thinking in the context of people as a whole, and you are thinking in the context of people as members HN.