But why is that the "recurring theme" at all in this thread?

Of course this hobby is about fun. And I get sick of the false information being spread by electric people with zero clue about nitro(and sorry, your friend being an engineer means nothing..), talking all of this utter nonsense blabber about it, when that's exactly what I find fun in the hobby. But that's secondary anyway. Any talk of electric or how "hard" nitro supposedly is (to the clueless) has NO place in this thread at all..

Last year I shredded the tip of my thumb off messing with the ESC on my MT4 G3. So where was the stupidity there - the ESC, or me? I know the answer to that, and how stupid it would be to confound it.