[Brian]

I don't think you're crazy at all! Just part of a small group of customers with unique needs.

If you look at OmniFocus for Mac, and then OmniFocus for iPhone, and then OmniFocus for iPad, one of the things you're seeing is an evolution in our thinking.

We started out with a fairly "everything and the kitchen sink, just in case we need it" approach, and from the feedback we've been getting since then, it looks like customers prefer a more thoughtful approach. It's really common for folks to tell us that they want OmniFocus for Mac to be more like the iPad app, for example.

We still want to make our apps powerful and let folks with unique needs tweak them if they need to, but we also want to avoid confusing or distracting them with controls they don't care about. If you can get what you need with an approach that's invisible to the folks that don't, that's a win in our book. :-)

(Oh, and we filed a bug on the bit where the app interrupts your work with an error dialog, as well. If auto-sync is on, we should just let those syncs fail and try again later, rather than bothering you. Sorry I forgot to mention that!)