Most of the rest of the Technician exam is what is the absolute minimum you need to know about Part 97 to avoid disrupting your neighbors' radio reception and/or keep the FCC from knocking on your door.
Exactly. They're the training wheels: if you never do these things, you'll be fine. (And if you do the right things and your neighbor still gets annoyed, we won't get mad at you.)
General and Extra are more like "OK, here's how you can get as close as possible to those things we told you not do to without getting in trouble."
