Yes. I quit carrying my climber because it was too heavy, cumbersome, and noisy, so that limited me to only hunting ladder stands/lock-ons. As a man of limited means, that meant I only hunted the same dozen or so trees all fall. While I still hunt the “ol faithful” stands, having the saddle allows me to hunt a TON more spots because I don’t have to buy a stand for each spot I want to hunt, and pre-drilling with bolts and the saddle is a spot-multiplier, so to speak. I killed my buck last year out of one such spot (I didn’t have enough stands to hang one there, but it was a spot I liked and wanted to hunt).
More than that, as others have said, it’s been something that’s kept my attention on deer almost year-round by inspiring me to focus in on my gear and tactics a lot more. Some folks like to just show up and shoot a big buck and that’s that; I’d rather “work at it” all year (in one way or another) because deer hunting is my passion, and the more time I can spend doing it or thinking about it, the better.