What I like about cedar is, you make an intelligent spine selection, straighten out the crooked ones, put finish and fletching on them put on the point and go and shoot them. With aluminums it gets a little trickier because there are less choices for weights at my draw and I hate shooting extra long arrows, With 160s glued to long inserts I get perfect flight out of my Robertson longbow 51@26" with 1918s, with less point weight I have to have absolutely perfect releases to get the same flight and the ease of pulling a smaller point out of my soy bean crate bag targets. I do not like shooting any aluminum shaft that is lighter than a 1918. With my Grizzly sticks the arrows shoot to the right with right hand bows and left with left hand bows, no matter which bow I tried with them, even though they appeared to fly perfect. So mixing them with other shafts is inconvenient. When I used the grizzly sticks that is all I shot, and I missed going small game hunting during deer season. Now with carbons even though there is a lot a versatility, there can be a lot of pieces a parts and messing around before one gets a hunting arrow. I guess if one enjoys messing around with pieces and parts it is no big deal, I like my small game arrows and stumping arrows to be at least predictably close to my broadheads. For me stumping and shooting at pheasants is way more fun than sitting on my butt waiting for a deer to come by, so those arrows are important to me.