Oh, really? So on July 26th, in this thread, you didn't quote a post from the forums over at RDNA in which it was explicitly stated " Of course there will be advanced settings that need some time to learn but you will be able to lean those as you go." but which you proceeded to ignore while complaining that there would be no advanced settings?

Odd, because I certainly responded to that post by pointing out your own post demonstrated your complaint had some issues.

If you had the faintest idea of what you are talking about, which you definitely don't, you would know that the late Nerd3D was talking about the parametrization of the Cycles engine, not of the structure of shaders. Keith, go to Blenderartits and read carefully the 755 page thread about Cycles, get Blender, go thru a couple of hundreds of tutorials ranging from a trivial matte material to volumetric fogs and clouds and then, only then, come back to discuss about Cycles because then, only then, you will know it enough to have an opinion about what Cycles is and is not, about what Cycles does and does not.

Signed: somebody who started using Cycles the next day after the nightly build included it for the first time, i.e. about 4 years ago.