If it's not a cost cutting measure, I can only infer Lionel is stating the orange modules were a mistake to begin with.
I can't see how anybody can do this in 30 seconds with just a remote. Road number/name, diesel/steam, Railsounds mode, etc. Far too much spinning of the knob to be accurate in 30 seconds for including all the info the module does. (I can see it if using the sensor track of course, assuming it's a new enough engine that has all the info in it's memory - but that's a wash since any engine without the internal info would have come with an orange module).
