Some aspects of the process seem more like labor than a form of self-expression. I think if you are into the limitations of shooting film photos it makes sense.

Urgh yeah I hate scanning as well. I finally got back to printing with an enlarger and told an elderly customer of mine at my camera stall. He just replied with "Ah, so you're finally doing _real_ photography".

I have a really basic approach to photography, I think: if the photography itself is challenging and stimulating, such as birds in flight, then I want the camera to be as capable as possible and just get out of my way. If the photography is "simple", I want the camera to be as insane and complex as humanly possible.

When I showed my Konica Hexar to a younger colleague, he said, but how do you get the pictures into the computer. It was like a world opened for him when I said that I don't.

I agree in part, in that it is sad that this person does not have access to a darkroom. As someone who is also now shooting film and then camera scanning, I would love to have access to a darkroom. It's just a compromise film shooters have to make, and often at no fault to them. It's either too expensive (which the negatives already are), or too far away/too big to fit in modern homes, or more likely both.

We're just grateful that film is still available at all.