Being a young buck, back in the mid 1960's, I built a number of Comet stick and tissue kits that had printed wood. As an 11 YO, I built Ed Lidgard's 32" Sparky. Also, their P-51 A or B turtle deck was print wood. It was one of my best fliers, because it was framed light, compared with Guillows, that used more wood. They required more time to cut out the parts, but they went together fairly quick. I'd cut out all ribs, frame the wing, cut out all formers, frame the fuselage, etc.
The latest kits including a couple Brodak's I have are all die cut. The later kits are better prefabbed, but being older in my age, costs are no longer an objection as they were when I was younger. Then, there was so much competition that kits, although in some ways inferior, were well within budget for an adolescent. The later Scientific, Top Flite and Dumas half-A CL kits were still well within budget for a high schooler back in the late 1960's early 1970's.
I don't see spoiled versus unspoiled, but rather that with less prefabbing, there is more personal labor involved. I enjoy the die and laser cutting, because they do simplify the work required, go together quicker. But in the past, having to mucilage glue paper patterns to balsa sheets, then cut out to scratch build from plans, although time consuming was still satisfying.
Just depends what one wants to do.
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