For the 80% case, cap works fine. It's when you need to do stuff in that last 20% that you have real trouble.
We got the 80% usage case of vlad covered in about a 3rd() of the code that cap required.
) actually π. In the release notes for vlad 1.1: "The flog ratio between capistrano+deps / vlad+deps is pi (or, damn close)!". Line numbers correlated fairly close iirc.