Yeah but (present company excepted) there are a lot of guitar techs who seem to have no idea - I'm no guru but you would have no idea of the number of times I have had to take guitars back to techs who have screwed up (NOT usually Brian Rodgers, who is, happily, a little OCD in a good sense) - buzzes, rattles, nut/saddle profile different from neck, excessive action at first fret, strings too close to edge of fingerboard or frets rounded off too deeply so effectively narrowing the fingerboard, sticky nuts, etc etc - soif the machine automates a process it may ted to make it more consistent.

Second, what about all the fuss there was about the Buzz Feiten tuning system - and the Zager souped up guitars. If people pay for the latest fetish, they are going to tend to think it's wonderful.

Someone with money to burn can take some of the more expert 'catters and pay for thier guitars to be done - and then I'll take the outcoming view seriously - maybe you goodself, Murray, and Big Mick, and Joe if it's well established in the USA. Or the good folk from Stew-Mac. One needs a luthier-player or 6 to evaluate this.