Sort of? I mean, that was part of it, at least. The whole thing was really stupid.
Yes and no. We don't have as many back home as I see here, but I'm an Al Bhed and we're into machina. We're good at figuring it out and everything. But the problem is that most of what we have is like... over a thousand years old. We have to salvage what we find and fix it up again. Or, we had to. Thankfully, all that is changing. Since we got rid of Sin and Yu Yevon the Yevonites are becoming more accepting of machina and stuff. See, they were like 90% of the world population while us Al Bheds are only like 10%, and they thought that the machina was part of what led to Sin attacking over and over, that it was evil and laziness and everything. But it wasn't, you know?