When I was hunting trad out of my saddle I didnt setup much different, but guys like
@Allegheny Tom @swampsnyper @100rollie @WHW (I"m probably missing some others, sorry guys) have been doing it a long time and will probabyl have some great pointers.
I can't compare a trad set up to a tech bow set up because I've never hunted with tech gear from a saddle, I've only used 2 recurves...60" and 58".
With pretty much everything I choose to do, I do so based on the odds...risk versus return.
I have no fear of heights but I do have a fear of
shooting from those super high sets. For me, it's just not worth the risk of a bad hit. Heck, it's hard enough to make ethical shots from a reasonable height let alone going up to nose bleed height. And we are obviously talking about the height above the deer, not the height up the tree. In some terrain 35 feet up may only put us at eye level with our intended shot.
There are only 2 reasons for going high and neither of those is as important to me as ethical shots.
1 reason is for odor, and I've never really bought into that argument. Your odor is at the mercy of the wind. Wind seldom travels parallel with the ground. There are up-drafts, down-drafts, and swirling. Unless the deer is directly straight down at the base of the tree, going higher doesn't do much to improve odor busts, at least not to the degree that it's worth having more difficult and risky shot angles. I'm meticulous about my odor reduction and I've done really well as the years and my system have progressed, but I gotta say that this year was off the charts for me not getting busted by odor. Deer simply either did not smell me or they considered the level of my odor to not be a threat.
Reason 2 for going high is to stay above the deer's peripheral vision. That may be true to some extent, but it often puts the hunter above back cover which leads to sky lighting. I always try to choose trees that allow adequate cover, so going higher is not worth the price IMO.
Sharp, downward angles can be a problem for bow clearance. There are times (happened to me just the other day) that I just can't shoot where I would like to shoot because of lack of bow clearance on something or other...the tree, the stand, my leg, or something. Usually I can position myself so I
could shoot, but it's not always conducive to a fluid shot sequence. Forcing a shot is a recipe for disaster.
If I position myself 10-12 feet above the deer in a tree with decent cover, keep myself as odor reduced as possible, and move only when it's the right time, then I'm getting away with murder being low in the tree.
It also takes less gear to climb lower.