I agree 100%, I think Tidal is able to do much more than what this little hardware does. I was just both a bit sarcastic and at the same time glad those concepts are going mainstream. This and the NDLR that is mentioned in the review are great controllers but still limited, and I got really interested in Tidal to do exactly this kind of control.
Back to your example, last sentence, I actually tried to control euclid with MIDI last night but completely failed. I referred to it in another thread : Using variables within patterns - #9 by artheist
I also tried stuff like:
d1 $ euclid (cI 3 "21") (cI 8 "22") $ sound "bd"
d1 $ euclid "^21" "^22" $ sound "bd"
But both these attempts remained silent. My feeling is that taking the pattern as an input is the root of the problem, as opposed to effects applied to it, but my tidal konwledge is still limited yet to find the right answer.