my feeling is they would not know how to streamline it if they hadn't been shown the path in the first place.

Oh yes indeedy! Snuggles right there with the old newspaper saying (you remember those? Inked print on paper with informative articles about many things?)

As the saying goes : "It is easier to re-write than to write." So you are absolutely right that what you have written provided a base for your compatriots to come along and re-write it!

Or as the other old saying has it :
"Nobody likes to write. Everybody likes to have written!"

So you are a writer they are just "have writtens." HA!

I am back today after having a lot of 404 problems ... so I take this opportunity to say WELCOME to all of you I am just meeting. Glad to have you aBoard. And soooo nice to now have names of computer literate people ... those strange things will keep happening ....I have a little list....

Whistling nonchalantly the High Priestess meander off ...