Gyros are not a crutch. A gyro will NOT fly your plane for you. Crutch you could call an auto pilot that would fly a plane for you but not a gyro.

A gyro will help you do the advance trimming flying models required to fly there best.

The basic trimming is the end points ,the dual rates ,the centring.

Its like a model needs up trim elevator but you refuse to dial it in by using your trims in your radio because you see them as ….a crutch!?
And you keep flying the plane by holding up all the time because..you refuse to use the abilities of todays radios.

How you can perform a nice impressive slow axial roll when you to keep that up elevator all the time?
And lets say that the use or rudder requires up elevator at the same time "knife edge mix out" .
So during the first quarter of your slow axial roll you need to add up more up to compensate the course change because of the rudder use.
Add to the example aileron coupling for the use of rudder .And rudder coupling of the use of aileron during the roll.

With the use of a gyro all this work load disappear.And the pilot can consecrate on the axial roll. Starting by aileron then rudder,down,rudder and exit.
With out unnecessary work load of coupling corrections a pilot can practice and spent time improving his flying skills rather wasting time fighting his model to fly .

A gyro will do nothing more than what your radio can do.It will activate the mixes you see are in your radio already to perfection straight away.That require a lot of work to be done correctly in the first place.
And it will give you a perfectly mixed out model that you CAN crash the same way you would in the past because…you flew it toward that way.

There is the way of wasting time fighting the couplings every time you fly ..
and there is a way to get free from them and instead spent time improving your skills or even better copy the demo program of the full size from the airshow and practice it

…my 2c