He's a charmer. I'm going to assume the sting line at the end is being facetious.
I'm always very skeptical of arguments that boil down to "I don't want it to be this way because it's HARD". Boo-hoo.
I'm a software programmer, and I feel his pain - do you let the widgets reorient with the screen, or do you make widgets in all possible directions so that the user can layout their screen the way they want? At the moment, the current design is multiple widgets per app (4x2 widget, 4x1 widget, etc - my calendar widget has every possible permutation, ha), so it seems likely that ambitious developers will program in that direction (4x2 portrait, 4x2 landscape).
This is perfectly do-able and it doesn't even need to clutter the widget screen - a bedroom programmer app I have lets you remove which widget sizes you can select for his app from the widget selector screen. If he can do that, other developers can too.
The argument here seems to be, "Sure it might be better for some customers to do it X way, but that's hard for me the programmer, so they can't!" Well, okay. Good luck with that, Mr. Developer. I'm sure no one else will come along to give your customer what they want.
