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I'm confused. Are you ignoring the faction that would be clever enough to create these designs and would do so for fun; calling such people foolish for having this hobby; or assuming that they don't exist?
I just didn't address them.
People who design and build Rube Goldbergs just for fun are (if successful) necessarily clever; very, very few of them believe that the resulting machines are actually useful in any meaningful sense, I think, so there would be no grounds for considering them foolish.
When you fully explain your bright/intelligent distinction you should also include a list of synonyms and antonyms for each. It seems like you're using "foolish" as an antonym for one and not the other, "brainy" as a synonym for one and not the other, etc.