Presets just free up brain space for the actual cutting issues.

That's the thing about tear-out on maple, it laughs at your router bits until you give up. Once you feel that satisfying chisel slice through the grain, it's hard to go back to screaming power tools. The router is great for hogging out waste, but for anything that needs to look decent, hand tools just let you feel what the wood is doing. Now I keep a shoulder plane and a marking gauge next to my saw, and the router only comes out for things that don't matter. Honestly, losing an afternoon might be the best way to learn that lesson.

Same thing happened with my DBZ tapes. Gohan sounds wrong now.