I can't say I think elimination communication is weird per se. I don't think it's 'lazy' not to do it though. To EC, you really have to be with the child all the time, as you don't know when it's going to happen (no way my kids go at the same time each day).

I don't have the time or patience and I don't have the desire to be cleaning up the messes all the time either. But I can't see anything 'wrong' with it.

It's not toilet training, it's toilet timing to hold a child over a potty after a meal. It's been done for a long long time, my grandmothers generation used to do it for sure. But then again, back then they had to use terry or flanny flats with pins and handwash everything - boiling nappies I think even in those days. Now we have modern cloth nappies which are easy to change and easy to use, liners which help the poo roll off into the toilet, we dry pail and have washing machines to do the washing. So having more nappies doesn't really make that much difference to us these days IMO.

It becomes a different thing when you go to toilet training and they have to feel when its coming and have forewarning and the ability to toilet themselves - but you have to get there somehow. Whatever makes one happy in the meantime really.