This just feels like either

A. He doesn’t fully get what satire is and assumes it has to be lighthearted or

B. He’s using “provocative” to basically mean “clickbait, but I’m too pretentious to call it that”

Honestly in a use case like family photos, redoing it every x amount of time is probably a good idea anyway so new ones can be added.

Not as far as “dumb” per se but I would accept “less smart” in exchange for physical buttons and a removable battery.

There was Big Bob’s Beepers on Hey Arnold.