The line about how you were "making work" hits close to home, but I still pull most bodies down all the way. Reason is rust and old lube you cannot see from the outside. A Canonet with a gummed slow ring can look fine on the bench and then stick two weeks later. Doing the full strip lets me relube and find cracked gears before they come back to bite me. I get the time savings, but for anything I plan to sell or shoot hard, I would rather lose the hours than lose the camera down the road.

This is the same thing that happens with cars and phones, where the fancy features sound great until the day they break and leave you stuck. The more parts something has, the more ways it can let you down, and out on a trail that math gets real ugly real fast. Sometimes boring and basic is just the smarter way to go.