Factorio - Why I don't use Belt Balancers

I'm working though my list of videos. This is a list I've been building for a while now, some of these things have been on it for a over year or so. So here's me casually making a video where I make an off hand comment about belt balancers, a few seconds of a script I wrote before christmas, and now I need to make this video first or that 5 second piece of video is going to make no sense and lead to 'feedback'.

This is not a video that was on my list. The satisfaction of crossing a video off that list therefore missing. And 'feedback' is still more than likely.

I'm just playing. Any excuse to make a good thought process and I'm on it. Enjoy.

EDIT It is two months since I made this video and the introduction above probably represents my overall sentiment about this video. Naive. It isn't that the video is inaccurate, the approach I put forward in the video is absolutely the approach I follow in game. It's that belt balancers are incredibly useful, probably even a pre-requisite, for certain build styles. Just not my build style.

But then again, I did specifically title the video 'I'. It is a video about my position on belt balancers and why. I'm not advising or recommending anything. Have I been unreasonable? I don't think so. But naive? Probably.