I enjoy both types of airplanes. I can remember way back when if you built from a kit it wasn't a real model, real modellers scratch built everything. It is really relative to the technology present at the time that skews your views. Personally, I'm going to scratch build one this winter because it has been a few years since I scratched one up. And I'm not going to use a kit cutter because that is not really scratch building is it? just kidding.