It may be fun once in a while but try doing it three or four nights a week, ten hours a night, year after year. AND holding down a job where you have to get up in the morning. The Mk III does all the work and lets its owner sleep. There is a lot to be said about drift scan when you look at it this way. I think the key to bringing more of them into amateur science is to make is less time consumming for them.
Automation is the way to go.