I bought a Pro 1000 a few decades ago. This may sound perverse, but I got my enjoyment out of sorting out the jams and mis-feeds. I swapped mine between three calibers with extra shell plates, the devil's own work. Why do we have all the tools we do? Why do we like tinkering? Why reload? The only way to make one pay off in higher throughput is to stick with one caliber and not change anything once set up. That only works for high volume powder burners, not tinkerers that love to change stuff and play with different toys. All those pot-metal, die-cast parts are frail compared to Lee's competitors. I eventually gave mine away to an equally demented soul who loved tinkering. The one issue I never solved was the mis-alignment between shell holder stations and die holes. I learned to set the friction ring on all dies simultaneously with a cartridge pushed into all of them, but the indexing and concentricity would wander out of alignment if you loaded long enough.