Smokeybear
Emperor
Don't do it then. Drop down a level and don't offer those bleepin' trades any more. Your time is obviously more valuable to you than those trades (though I agree the input boxes are a bit ... tiny).
I think not. I'll suffer with it before dumbing my game difficulty down to avoid it. But I'm also a big fan of making things actually workable and enjoyable, rather than suffering needlessly with a clearly clunky interface element.