I can only speak for myself, of course: I find Lionel's user manuals very hard to understand, and the various procedures hard to remember.
I observe the many questions posed in the forums about Legacy and TMCC, and the complex answers provided that are full of technical terms, which indicates to me that this is too complicated for an occasional user like me.
I bought into Lionel because of the R27 set. Otherwise, if I were to enter the hobby fresh today, I honestly don't know what system I would adopt. DCC seems simpler than Legacy, and yet there are numerous DCC systems out there, so even that choice is not straightforward.
I'm expressing these thoughts only once, because I don't want to start a control system war, and I am grateful for the help I received. I just wanted to get that off my chest, because it has been bothering me that I find it so hard to use the Legacy system. Maybe it's just that Lionel's documentation just isn't very good.
Or maybe that I really am a dummy. 😂🤣
