Thanks Martin. I also had a read of this on their site.
https://www.startools.org/modules/develop. I may be wrong, I'm probably wrong
, but my take from that is that a Develop stretch is best used in linear situations where finer control may be required. For example on low magnitude targets, suppressed by high noise signal, as you'd risk crunching pixels in a non-linear process. I guess this is where AutoDev shine's with non-linear data and its ability to calculate optimum pixel values to provide the best stretch possible.