"Annoyance wants us to stop talking about fancy techniques and get back to basics."

No. I don't think that we - as a group - have ever gotten around to the basics, and so we can't go back to them. How can we return to a place we've never been?

It is vital always to begin at the beginning. It is especially important when it comes to rationality, because there's nothing but the beginning. Looking for the complex, we pass over the simple because it doesn't fit what we expect, and so the solution eludes us.