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I'm not sure there's another tool people spend more time on Youtube excusing themselves for using. Just imagine:
"Now on this project I am going to be using my palm sander. Now you don't have to have a palm sander, you can get pretty good results sanding by hand. But since I do have a palm sander, I'm going to use it."
If I was running a commercial shop churning out furniture for retail sale, I might buy something like a Domino. The time it saves over a router table or dowel jig will pay for itself if it means you can build 10 chests-of-drawers in a month instead of 9.
In my home shop, which is a 10x12 shed in which I make stuff for me and my family, thinking about maybe opening a little Etsy store...I ain't got room for the box it comes in. I legitimately struggled to find a place to put some sandpaper I bought the other day.