Why you are so down on Arborgames, or why you feel it necessary to speculate about others' sexual orientation, I don't understand.
But I will tell you why I like the split tail system (which I use on my old, leather Buckingham precursor to the Master). I don't footlock thirty feet up, tie in, then recrotch twenty feet higher. I throw in to the top of one section, prune downward throught he whole section, then back up another section (I climb the WHOLE tree, pruning deadwood only, so I have to go everywhere.) When I get to the new section, my rope is often at an extreme angle to my original tie-in. I've already pulled the slack out while moving throught the tree. Now, I clip in my safety, pull my eye splice out of the original crotch, put it over a convenient new crotch, then use my slack-tender pulley to get my rope tight.
I know all these gadgets and gizmos might tend to get caught on your ladders, but most climbers I know who use it find it highly preferable to the old way. Maybe it isn't as fast as free climbing, but I do this stuff every day and I'm not willing to keep taking chances for speed until I fall and disable myself. I like climbing too much to lose it to stupidity.
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