KiCad, Generalization and Workflow

ugh the preceding document is the culmination of a set of rants and thought about PCB design software for some; there's a TLDR at the bottom. I ran out of steam writing it eventually but some of the ideas with work flow are kind of interesting. I'm going to post the bulk of it on kicad forums to see if anything will come of it there. If it doesn't maybe it's time to take a stab at the kicad source.