RFE Studio vs. writing the response cold — what actually changed

Had written one RFE response the old-fashioned way (my own outline, my own tracking) on a prior filing, so I had something to compare RFE Studio against this time. The biggest difference wasn't the drafting help — it was not having to manually verify I'd addressed every single objection. Last time, I built my own spreadsheet mapping objections to responses, and even with that, I found out during a final review that I'd drifted on one objection's response without noticing — I'd addressed a related but not identical point. This time, having the objections tracked structurally against the response meant that kind of drift got caught earlier, before it became a "did I actually catch everything" panic in the final week. What it didn't do, and I wasn't expecting it to: make the underlying evidence decisions for me. It's still on you to decide what new evidence actually answers an absence objection — the tool helps you not lose track of the objections, not generate the substance from nothing.