For low power, I just don’t get the point of flying once you get above maybe 300 feet AGL, unless you have an altimeter aboard or a camera. The “up” part of the flight with a bigger motor is only a couple of seconds longer, and assuming successful deployment of recovery device, unless you are flying remote control glider or dual deploy (dual deploy is exciting always seems like, “wait for it....,wait for it....., hope for it......., pray for it......., OH SHEESH, Thank you Lord!), the down part is kind of boring for streamers and chutes except you are HOPING it lands in the recovery area and not a tree or a lake. Down part is entertaining for helicopters, gliders, and air brakes, but only if it stays in visual range (and these are hard to recover if it goes much over 300 feet.)
To each his own. I watched a lot of HPR launches at NSL last year, cool rockets, but from an observer standpoint the flight profiles all start to look alike once they get beyond the first 1000 feet, except I suspect those approaching the waiver altitude had a longer drive to recover (for the rocket, I mean)!