Huntsman is certainly more of a realist than many others in the field, but as Daniel Larison has pointed out, Huntsman is not going to live up to the expectations of non-interventionists.
While many people seem to want to just jump in with both feet, it made sense to reach out to a few small employers to help work out the kinks in the technology on a small scale before going fully live.
Making a conscious decision to live in a place means you are going to take the mystery out of it to some extent, but you can never entirely do that here.