[Greg McKaskle]

For backstory. We considered keeping the LCD APIs and making them use the DB instead, but after discussing it, we felt that would just obscure the choices teams have.

The old API wasn't really that simple or complete. So teams are welcome to abstract the DB variables however they like, and they can of course customize the DB to have a tree control if they want. We felt that writing to or reading from variables was simpler, especially to new teams.

Greg McKaskle