Nah not at all saying zero benefits, its more along the lines of saying definitively that sapphire will for sure be your dish of choice....when for most, if for nothing else then cost....no it won't be, for a HUGE majority of people the hassle is too much......likewise, uptemps, while GREAT....are a F'n hassle with cheese and bacon on top.......great flavor, great medications etc etc, but a huge huge huge hassle that frankly I don't see getting any easier as time goes on, the slitted inserts are about as good as I can imagine it'd get much more streamlined aside from a full SIC chamber and a tuned PID just for the temp range needed. Heatless diffusion/nebulization seems to me, from a science standpoint, to truly and finally be worthy of being called an "end game"....maybe shooting up pure meds in a vein may somehow be "better" but I don't claim to know that science.......heatless vapor deposition in your lungs seems like the end of the road to me...much much much farther down the line then uptemps/drop ins/whatever.
Im still offering money to anyone who wants to meet up and can accurately/consistently pick out a dab with a <2 inch ti path vs all quartz or whatever other material and Id even buy the nails to prove my point. Ive said this before and I strongly stand by it still, its much ado about nothing (yes there is the small, small, small, small bit of people that if they even look at metal in the context of breathing will break out in hives....Im talking the other 99.9999999999% of us).......and now that I think about it Im not sure what it has to do with uptemps or heatless applications but yeah.
TLDR:
uptemps are great but a huge hassle and IMO, will not be "the future"
heatless delivery however, prolly will be.........in a long long time.
quartz is still old tech and isn't going to magically get any better and I strongly feel its only being constantly pushed by the industry due to the insane margins on even cheapy bangers let alone if you go for "made in the USA"
These opinions arent formed by myself in a basement (don't let the pic of my shut in size fingernails fool you) Im a party monster who's sees MASSIVE amounts of people (I go to many cups and sesh's in Cali, Ore, Wash and Colo) partaking in this hobby....if it was just us, the hardcore, maybe Id think differently, but sadly the huge bulk of the people I see don't even know that quartz can exist beyond a rock let alone the things being done with it today.
My advice and opinions/view are not words of god and don't apply to every single person, but thats not really the point of an opinion or review.