Sorry Grandpa but I would correct you there. Certainly from my & many others experience we have found sharing actually helps. Being connected to other people who are connected to different peers who themselves are connected to more peers & ultrapeers, actually helps obtain better results. As you are aware a person's search only reaches a % of the entire network. But by being indirectly connected to others improves searches or accessibility to other files. I find that if I share a particlar type of file, then I find it much easier to find similar ones compared to if I wasn't sharing that type of file. I've known other experienced users who have had the same experience.

milkman6453 cars don't really need steering wheels. You can just push them toward the direction you want .. perhaps lean on one side to give it that directional push. But some people actually enjoy having steering wheels in their cars. Before shortcuts were introduced, those buttons are all that we had. Some people be it youngsters from 10 years old or 90 years old like to use the buttons. You're free to design your own version of LW without those buttons for your own personal use.