I'm waiting on my Muddy Pros to arrive (they shipped yesterday) and then I will post a video of how I use them with a long aider that travels up the tree with me. It is very easy, quiet, fast, and simple. 7-8 feet per stick. The aider I use goes from the top of the stick (which is as high as I can reach up the tree), and I'm about 6 feet tall and is long enough that I can just step in it from the ground. The stick holds the aider pretty far out from the tree and you have plenty of toe room. It is like walking up a ladder and three sticks are all I will need.
When you get to the bottom step of the two-step stick with the aider on it, you stand on the bottom step and take the aider off the top step of the stick and clip it onto your belt so you don't drop it, set the next stick as high as I can reach, put the aider on, and walk up the ladder. The folding step on the stick secures the aider so it can't slip off. Reversing the process going down was easy in lightweight clothes and daylight but I have a long tether and rappel down so the big spacing won't be an issue for me.
I think it would be easy to use two sticks and just alternate them going up the tree since you 'walk up the ladder' to the next step. You would need to set the aider and stick above you then dangle and take the bottom stick off, then walk up the aider/ladder and repeat. But maybe the hassle to gain ratio gets out of whack at that point. I will try it and see. Maybe you using two sticks would work for the platform too and then the climbing and platform would be about 6 lbs and the rappel/tether setup another couple lbs.