stop asking me to refrain from adding more sluice gates to the waterways. you are weak and foolish to question the usefulness of sluice gates in waterways. any further insistence on fewer sluice gates will get you sluiced into the waterways. you will go fast, you will go far, and you will not survive.
If you don't want more sluice gates in the waterways, maybe don't live in a hydraulic empire