No mater what a pilot says, he spends more hours working on his airplane than he does flying it. It's no doubt, airplanes are a lot of work. As a specitator, I like aerobatic competition and just plain aerobatic flying. You can see when a pilot goes from one that can cleanly do the maneuvers to a pilot that can go from maneuver to maneuver as if it were a dance. Aerobatic flying takes a lot of work and persistance.
Aerobatics also requires a lot of gas.
One pilot once told me that becoming a good pilot doesn't require all of the lastest gagets on your aircraft it requires a lot of gas in your aircraft. In other words, instead of spending a lot of money on your airplane, spend that money on the airplane fuel. This way you will learn the proper aerobatic maneuvers. All I can say is that I've listened to the guys who knew how to fly and the guys who said that they knew how to fly and the putting the gas in your airplane theory seems to be the most correct.