a table saw for me is indispensable. i build midcentury modern furniture as a hobby and also work with sheet acrylic. when shopping for saws, the Sawstop cabinet saw was a no brainer. i had no problem paying the premium for the safety feature as opposed to saving money on other saws without the safety technology. having said that, i use it much less now that I have a couple of track saws which can do many things a tables saw can do but safer and more accurately. I say more accurately because a table saw has to be properly trued to be as accurate as possible whereas tracksaws are simply placed on the track and you're up and running. One is a Festool TS75 I use for ripping thick hardwood and the other is a Mafell MT55 that I use to rip hardwood at times but mostly plywood. The Mafell is superior to Festool's equivalent but then again Mafell tools are superior in general but they're not cheap.