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I'll defend straight-through finders. I grew up using one, fortunately on a very tall scope. By keeping both eyes open I can use them as a zero-power finder and then close one eye when the target is in the fov. RA finders are useless for this, so unless I use the laser as a zero-power finder I can't find a thing with an RA finder.
My wife once borrowed one of those 'point it at the sky and it will tell you what you are looking at' devices. Worse than useless. Firstly, the display overwhelms the sky so you can't even see the star/area you are trying to identify. Despite that the display is too faint to be easily read. Then the pointing accuracy is lucky to be 5* so you could aim it at M7 and be told you are looking at M6, or M8 or some mag 14 galaxy.
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