I mostly agree with you, I do my own B&W dev and use a mail-in lab for my C41/E6 but I have invested in a dedicated negative scanner and do my own digitisation.

I mostly agree with you, I do my own B&W dev and use a mail-in lab for my C41/E6 but I have invested in a dedicated negative scanner and do my own digitisation. For me it was another part of the “creative process” and I wanted to control it.