Rob, apologies, I'll rephrase the question.
Why on earth would you want to return to such a severely limited baseline, standard, constant or given?
The answer is at least twofold:
1. I was perfectly happy using film and can assure anyone interested that I never felt it complicated, threatening or in any other way a bad deal. Yes, I did hate airport X-Ray, though, but managed to avoid most of it by making formal application to the various consulates through whose country I'd be passing. The only place the system failed me was the USA, and once Spain, and in Spain before I twigged about getting good documentation beforehand;
2. the main problem with digital (for me) is that I have been used to looking at film after film on a lightbox and making pretty instant decisions about what I presented to a client and what stayed in the files or vanished into oblivion. In all the years since the D200, my first digi camera, I have never felt comfortable with digital editing, even for my own, private use where there may be only about fifty to seventy images as a maximum. Were I ever fortunate enough to land another calendar, I think I'd die of stress or old age before I managed to edit such a shoot running into thousands of images via a computer. It's alien to my ways of life, still;
3. this thread began with the idea of complication and poor design (unless I'm mixing threads up, which is possible if one reads enough here) in cameras and as far as those parameters are concerned, I found film simple, instinctive and not at all frustrating. Nothing, since the 500 Series, has felt so right, simple and perfect for so many photographic applications, especially those that I face as an older man.
I realise from other posts that I am obviously the lone elephant, even possibly the rogue trader in an exchange of honest men, but nonetheless, that's how my reality of the two systems compares. Not a lot I can do about that if I want to be true to my own feelings and report them as such.
I could, I suppose, say nothing or just go along with the majority, but why? What would be the point for me or for anyone else?
Rob C