Preferred the weight" is exactly the kind of thing @the_hayden would say, and it shows how we get used to bad design. You start to think the extra effort is normal, even a sign of quality. It's wild what we'll defend just because it's familiar.

Gotta wonder if it's really that big of a deal. A decent stool and a careful hand got the job done for years. Seems like a small comfort turned into a must-have.

Totally, the sorting is the real hero. I had a prof who still printed everything and graded with three different colored pens, took him weeks.