True, the ease of reading and clarity is way better, but I find the collection of notes and mare mekomos to one column maddening. I am generally in a hurry, doing targeted sugya searches, and I prefer these things to be where they always were. Sometimes, an old sefer can be a real gem, in the historical sense. I have seen really old stuff that predates the Vilna, and the tzuras hadaf is very different. An elderly fellow I learn with has a treasured single volume of a shas published 1868 in Pressburg. It has an easy read type layout, and bolded Rashi headings. Talmon wasn’t the first.
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