Not a bad idea. There'll always be someone who says "but I can already do that with X" and then someone who replies to that with "but I can already do that with Y" and in the end when you're done trying to stick to the purist laws you've ran out of time and motivation and your project goes into the Pile of Dead Projects.
Or, we have easy to use, enjoyable interfaces and let ourselves use them, and actually finish things.
