Your point of view seems to be one that's rooted in what you and the people you work with use AutoCAD for.
Absolutely. Based on my experience it is generally considered bad practice to hard code colors, line types et al. I have worked in a wide variety of industries and disciplines over many years and have never seen a spec that mandated hard coding properties.
Is it possible there are exceptions to the rule? Certainly. But I maintain that generally speaking, hard coding properties is not a good tactic and therefore, tools like this out in the wild can potentially cause more grief than good.
In my opinion, each and every one of us has a duty to identify things that, in our experience, are flawed with respect to the common good, no matter how it may impact our popularity, regardless the possibility our opinion may not be definitive. While I'm not blessed with the gift of being able to put things in a way that's palatable to all it's more important to me to have integrity in what I do; to speak up when I see something afoul, ergo my first post in this thread.
I appreciate your contribution to this thread Tony, even though I may not agree with your perspective. Conversations like this are vital if we, as a collective, are to understand and appreciate all facets of a given issue.
Michael.
