I rather play a 5 ball game then use the ball save. So simple to say, "I got that score with 5 ball". But, then again.. you can say the same thing with ball save
***I really do wish we had the ability to set ball save for 1st ball only..but, for every ball? a little much for me.***
If I want to play a longer game for fun and work on my skills, I will set for 5 ball and play without the play-field hacks as shown here... when I win a champion with 5ball...I use the name 5ball ( changed from 3 initials to 7 in settings).
A whole lot of people use ball save and even some locations, and I do get it , and don't really have a problem with it and I'd rather see this then a play-field hack..at least that is a setting change over changing the play-field as it was not intended
for fun, I looked into this on past pinside discussions..like here. some do... some do not. To each his own.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/woz-are-you-using-ball-save
"this is just my thing".
It's all fun and good