Interesting, Tom Wayland, because I found the opposite. once I stopped worrying about the privacy side, way access got a lot simpler. Once I stopped worrying about what you give up on the free tier, way access got a lot simpler. What decided it for me with way access was the trust question.
You can't really talk about way access without talking about the profile quality.
Two people can have opposite results with way access purely because of not oversharing.
Two people can have opposite results with way access purely because of the fake-account issue. Is that everyone's experience with way access, or just mine? That is what worked for me on way to access the streamate archive of past shows; others here disagree.