There's no way that automagical generation of forms etc will solve all problems, that's for sure, Jeff's right about the potential for UI hell.
This is one reason I'm still interested in extending ad_form to be able to generate blocks of elements from content (or object) attributes - this would give one a way to blend custom form needs with automatically generate elements from attributes.
I think there's room for both approaches - simplifying the coding of more complex cases while providing essentially automated handling of simpler cases.
I think Tom's work also includes code to generate package/proc stuff (new?) and that's also duplication of effort of code that already exists in acs-subsite.
Maybe we should start up a forum for discussion of how to best coordinate efforts and reduce the redundancy of effort we seem to be seeing today?
I really hate to see so many people working in parallel on the same essential problem!
