Lupus is kind of lousy for the punchy scientific format because it has as a nickname "The Great Imitator." (Note that the porphyrias are known as the "little imitator.") Because of this somewhat Protean nature, lupus can masquerade as quite a lot of things, leading it to be a casual element one would have to bring up and then eliminate in episode after episode. Thus, for screenwriting reasons, it needs a kind of general dismissal which would stick in the mind of viewers ...
So, a Friend of a Friend died. It had been a long time since I had seen her, she had numerous medical issues, and so forth. My friend rushes several states to help with the funeral arrangements and returns to report pure horror: her "spouse" (I put the word in quotes because it was technically true but denotes a level of care which was not present) waited until the last minute to supply photos, almost all of which were amazingly inappropriate. Think leather gear, collars, leashes, and so on. And managed to make it all about them instead of the deceased. My friend and the funeral director had a frantic what can be accomplished in fifteen minutes sprint of cropping, blowing up, making collages, and so forth so as to not completely mortify the deceased's family with the details of what passed for their sex life.
I don't know if it is much of a generational, ignore your feelings bit. We're all so busy, never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines. If anything, I think time pressure has increased, we're all more "available" now. Increasing pressure to get into a good (and hopelessly expensive) college, too, may be a factor. I know seventeen year olds who think they've missed the starting gun.
Meowing is definitely a "please parent me" behavior. It took quite some time to domesticate two feral cats that were nearby -- many years. The meowing reflex was not present until much much later. One cat would open her mouth but forget to make the sound, but she eventually caught up to her brother, who would correct her by looking at her and meowing if she forgot.
Yeah, but if you don't have an XY problem, you have to spend a lot of your question pre-defending the "it's not an XY problem" stance and lordy ... is that frustrating.
There's a lot of people out there who are happy to tell you that you have an XY problem, but when you explain why it is not, ... crickets.
I didn't have problems, uh, thinking in parametrics, but lordy was the rendering slow. I might try it again.