What do you think about lampwork presses?

I have bought 7or 8 lampwork presses over the years. I'd been tempted by the beautiful beads produced with them and the lovely and consistent shapes.
I use only one on a very irregular basis....it is lovely and perfect and a shape I couldn't hope to produce without this perfection making devise.
I ran across an interesting new press type tool recently that makes with ease absolutely perfect, absolutely identical spacer beads. I was intrigued, but frankly disheartened by this new doodad. Why bother I wondered....if you need perfection, why not just buy machine made beads.
Once in my art festival booth a customer was humming and hawing about a pair of earrings...when Joe finally asked what the problem was, she said that the tiny squiggles of stringer work on these tiny earrings didn't exactly match... I was flabbergasted and outraged but luckily Joe is much more patient then I am and handled it with grace. I wondered why such a customer would even bother looking at handmade art jewelry. Isn't the joy of art knowing that it was made by a real person, a person who put their heart and soul into the piece for you enjoyment?
So, you lampworkers out there, you designers and artists....what are your thoughts about this? Now I know some people need that consistency to be happy, but do we really want to strive for a machine made look?