First off, build what "YOU" like to build! If "YOU" think that a glassed fuse is harder to work with over a wooden kit fuse, so be it! Many of us disagree!

Secondly, it's best that everyone leave the ARF people alone! ARF's are what's keeping our hobby together today. The hobby is already in decline. Start chasing the ARF folks off and they'll choose another hobby, and then ours will be in dire straits! They are here to stay, so just deal with it. If you like to build, then build. But, don't knock the guy who chooses to "assemble". Oh, if it doesn't say ARF or ARC on the side of the box, it's more than likely a kit.

For those of you who simply can't stand it, you hardcore kit builders, start your own club. Start a club for nothing but kit planes, no ARF's. See how much fun that ends up being, or how successful that club ends up.

I, for one, own both. I'd bet a months worth of wages that if ARF's were to go away tomorrow, our hobby would die.

People kill me! It's best we all start thinking about what we want to convey before we say/text/type it.