Ah, thank you for clarifying.
If the part about no one knowing how to program has something to do with my only finding conduits by hand, I should clarify that I am aware of Bellman, but Bellman appears to only work on Windows, I have a Mac, and I don't want to download an emulator because I don't feel like downloading unnecessary things in general, and from what I hear, Bellman searches can take long enough without an emulator, so I am going to follow the principle of comparative advantage.
As for the part about overhauling fifty years of investigation, I think that people overestimate the magnitude of the changes that I want to make. I do not want to get rid of Herschel conduits. I merely do not want to have to put any elementary conduit that I find into a composite Herschel conduit in order for it to be recognized, and I don't like seeing regions that I feel are more conduit-worthy investigated less than regions that are less conduit-worthy. I have no problem with the existence of elementary Herschel conduits or even composite Herschel conduits. In fact, I have used elementary Herschel conduits here, and I have used composite Herschel conduits there and here. In fact, for the latter example, instead of going through all of the elementary conduits and checking to see which emitted gliders in addition to another output object, I just decided to start with a Herschel and reflect its first natural glider even though the former may have allowed a solution (to that particular part of the problem) with a smaller bounding box or other advantage.
Personally, I feel that part of the problem may be that when debating the merits of other active regions, the other user typically bases his/her stance on only the conduits that have already been found, while I also include the partial conduits that I have found that I feel are promising when I take my stance. If this continues to cause contention, I'll probably bite the bullet and start running slow Bellman searches.
I think that you're confusing my idea that the twin centuries produced by a twin bees shuttle could be turned into an x66 with something else.