Firstly, the video is hilarious!

Secondly, the video is a purposely over-the-top version of the comic strip. A lot of the time people may not realize how their requests can be on different spectrums. An interesting point is that “The Expert”, actually solved their problems as they came up, but extra stipulations continued to be added. The first issue of wanting, 7 seven red lines in ‘3’ ink colors (red, green, transparent) was solved by him inferring the target audience to be color blind. The target audience was not color blind. He solved the issue of perpendicularity by suggesting 2 red lines and 5 transparent lines. The customer did not want to compromise having green lines.

I think this shows that sometimes, to progress through a product, necessary compromises are needed. Necessary compromises.