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They used to say "Ignorance is Bliss."
I wouldn't go quite so far as that with reloading, but I would say that "A LITTLE ignorance is helpful."
I don't imply stupidity here. Ignorance is a different thing - or we wouldn't need a separate word for it. It comes from "ignore" and that's how I'm using it here: "ignore-ance" is the ability to ignore selected things. Be unaware of them, in other words.
Variation of seating depth that you cannot detect without the aid of a delicate measuring device is one thing that deserves ignore-ance.
Put you comparator in a drawer. Load up a box of ammo. Stand them all up in a good light and admire them. If you cannot help but say to yourself, "Man, those are good-looking reloads!" then you have achieved the highly desirable state of reasonable ignorance.
But start fiddling with that comparator on those rounds, and you fall right out of the state of bliss and ignorance.
BTW, the same thing happens when you buy a chronograph. All your blissful ignorance collapses into a morass of doubt and confusion. About the time you think you have that under control, you'll buy a pressure-measuring system and plunge right back into the morass of infinite perplexity.
Eventually, you will learn the Golden Snowflake of Truth: no two loaded rounds are ever the same. Ever.
At that moment, you will realize that what you had fussed over for all those years could've been ignored. And then, ignorance IS bliss.
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