This is such a good discussion where we are all free to state our preferences with no one getting their "knickers in a twist". I appreciate that it takes talent and skill to choose threads, program the machine and all that setting up. Not taking away from that. It just looks too perfect to me. Same with computerized long arm quilting. At a quilt show a lady was showing me how to set up the machine. A complicated procedure with the computer. Then she turned it on and off it went. I'm glad people who like it can do it. It is not for me.