Rob, I understand your point of view and do not disagree with it, but my
perspective may be a bit different from yours. I appreciate the tools
that the portal gives me to manage the hundreds of subnets that I handle
and which allows me to make good use of the many volunteer coordinators
who give generously of their time but do not have the time to manage
their subnets the way you manage yours.
The portal has a DNS management function, but it is currently disabled
because I have not figured out how to convert the existing DNS data to
it and in that state it was confusing people. Being web based, I suspect
you would have found it inconvenient to use as it would not have offered
the unlimited flexibility of using an editor on a text file.
- Brian