I'm not a zero computers zen wood shop person. Just offering a perspective based on my experience. I've also built from others digital plans and my own and find that for my workflow, the higher fidelity doesn't add much value. Maybe its a personal tendency to try and make it pixel perfect and because of that I sink way more time into it than I should. Pencil and paper help me avoid that rabbit hole for woodworking.
> a personal tendency to try and make it pixel perfect and because of that I sink way more time into it than I should.
Now that resonates too close to home...
May be I will come to the same conclusion as you after spending hours/days/weeks into trying out a bunch of things with CAD. Lets see... this rabbit hole feels worthy of jumping into.... (it will be different this time!)