Indeed. 95% of the destruction was completely lazy/gratuitous and didn’t generate new information. The board had a ribbon cable that almost certainly had a male/female connector-- (but why not just forcibly rip/twist it off since this is a Youtube video?) When he was disconnecting the plotter cables-- all he demonstrated was that he could disconnect the plotter cables. When he delaminated the board’s sensor array from the hardboard, surely he could have peeled a section off nondestructively to show us a sample and then reglued it.
At the very beginning, I thought the child was lucky to have such a “cool” dad and his brightness was an obvious result of good parenting. By the end, I thought the child was somewhat unfortunate to have such an oaf for a parent and was bright in spite of him.
It’s a goddam beautiful automatic chess board. At the end of their video, they could still have had a working goddam beautiful automatic chess board. The patient didn’t need to die for the operation to be a success.
