The bigger issue is that a lot of these inserts are built by people who play the game solo or in a fixed group, so they design around one setup flow that works for them. If your table is smaller, or you store the box on its side, or you use an app instead of the monster cards, that perfect layout falls apart and you end up digging through layers anyway. Plus pulling trays out and setting them around the table just moves the work from the box to the tabletop. Half the time I end up leaving stuff in the trays and it's the same mess with extra steps.

Man that story about your uncle on I-35 hits home. My old man towed a skid steer with two straps once and one snapped on a curve, spun the whole trailer sideways into a ditch. Took us three hours to get it out and he never cheaped out on tie downs again. Your uncle sounds like he knows what he's talking about, four points just makes sense because if one lets go the load still has something holding it. Good on you for actually listening instead of getting mad about redoing it.