Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.