It would seem that way, but you use your pad and I'm sure you told your nieces and nephew how it works so they are fine with it. The problem is with a club set up, you are dealing with a large number of people and the lowest common denominator when it comes to figuring out how a mechanical thing works. Personally, I never have issues with that, it's always pretty obvious to me, but for others, it is nothing but confusing and they don't have a clue and can't seem to figure it out. And that is just for loading a rocket. Then there are a bunch more that are setting up and taking down. Add weights and tent stakes and it just gets way too confusing and becomes a huge cluster getting things set up.
As a personal pad, I'm sure the tripod can work great. What we've found, as a club set up, they are a huge headache unless you have one person do all the setup and tear down and work as pad manager for the whole launch. That isn't really practical either. Which is why our tripods are in the sea container in a bucket now.
