It's hardly disingenuous. Any Google Contacts user that has used the options available to customize their contact descriptions isn't going to be happy with EAS.
If they added too many email or mailing addresses, that's a problem too. I tried to add my Google Contacts to my Lumia and EAS failed to do the job.
This entire discussion is about how wonderfully open and restriction free EAS is. About how it works across platforms and how evil Google is for dropping it, even though there are serious compatibility issues between the two.
Try to marginalize the point all that you like, but I still have a Lumia with only about 30 of my 400+ contacts on it because
EAS has serious limitations.
Arrowrand, nobody is claiming you had a great synching experience with EAS. Yet your view on the issue is still fundamentally flawed. That basic misunderstanding of yours still exists, and for some reason all of us are failing at explaining it to you. I'll try one more time with an analogy:
Last weekend I went mountain goose hunting. I took my new Ferrari up into the snowy alps and golly me, the damn thing just failed to do the job. With the 4x4 jeep I previously owned things worked much better. This entire discussion is about how restriction free my Ferrari is, even though there are serous compatibility issues between the two. Try to marginalize the point all you like, but I caught 400 geese last month using my jeep. Using my Ferrari I returned with but 30.
Yes, an utterly ridiculous argument. It could come from nowhere but an insane asylum, but it is exactly what your argument sounds like.
Ferraris and Jeeps aren't designed to do the same thing. Neither are EAS and CardDAV.
Nobody here is going to argue that using a Ferrari to go mountain goose hunting will result in a great experience, but blaming the Ferrari for that poor experience is insane. Simple as that.
If you want to blame somebody, blame Microsoft and Google for not having gotten together to develop a compatible contacts managements system. Although there's no chance of that ever happening, it at least makes more sense than blaming EAS.
I'm fully aware that this ridiculous analogy can be twisted to reflect an entirely different point of view. That isn't the point. The analogy serves only to point out the reason why it doesn't make sense to blame EAS for your poor syncing experience.