It is only your reaction to the situation which suggests that fine tuning software that does 15-20k db writes a second is no big deal to complete.
No, and thats the point. I never implied building something like gpumax was trivial, please dont make it sound like I did.
But monitoring some vital stats like stales and throughput through scripts rather than having a human looking at something 16 hr per day (and that something can only be generated by.. such scripts) would indeed seem trivial by comparison.