This discussion has been just about beat to death, and then some.

Build, if you truly enjoy building. Don't sneer at folks that bring ARFs to the field. Let them be and concentrate on enjoying your own RC hobby instead. This hobby is big enough to accomodate all of us.

Besides, why must we delineate so black and white between ARFers and builders? I, for one, do both. I like bashing an ARF as much as I enjoy bashing an kit. Either way, it's only a starting point to me. You can modify an ARF almost as easily as you can a kit.

Be happy that we have so many choices these days - ARF, ARC, kit, scratch build. I'm just old enough to remember how the "good ol' days" really were - and I don't miss 'em one bit.