Macros are an escape hatch. "Don't use a macro unless you need to" is good advice, but when you -do- need to, having macros around is lovely. Yes, you can ach

Macros are an escape hatch. "Don't use a macro unless you need to" is good advice, but when you -do- need to, having macros around is lovely. Yes, you can achieve the same thing by typing out what would've been the expansion yourself, but in cases where macros are a good idea the expansion would've been sufficiently prone to mistakes when tweaking it that maintaining the macro is an improvement.