I quit using the thread cutter on my Baby Lock for the same reason. If you use the cutter, the tails are too short to hold onto when you start the next seam or whatever. Since I've never been able to figure out if there was a way to adjust the length of thread tail it leaves, I go the route of enders and leaders. Mostly I chain piece anyway, so it's not a big problem for me. Baby is now my back-up machine, but my newer Brother does the same thing.