One you understand the TL, you'll love it, and you won't worry about the endles hours you spend making everything look pretty and making sure all your connections are sweet!
I'll second that. I may not understand everything there is about total loss but one thing is for sure... No ski of mine will ever go without total loss from now on.
It wasn't pretty to set up initially and then was a pure SOB debug a partially working used system but I'd spend another 15-20 hours doing it again if I had to.