Well I did more than that. I actually benchmarked form refresh rates comparing bound to value assignments, Value assignements won hands down.
Bound is good for little programs. I have some systems that have over 160 text boxes fed by 8 tables (some of the output needed bi-sectional computations) on a single form. If you have to ask why, you just haven't worked the markets I've worked. Bound choked, Value flashed.

>Bound data works GREAT with multiple tables/views in a single form, and multiple instances of those forms in a completely modeless environment. Multi-user is also easily supported with a little bit of update conflict handling code.
Thats great if you're just echoing fields. Some software actually has to run computations before outing to a form.
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>I think you threw the baby out with the bath water because of some misunderstood concept.
"Throw the baby out with the bath water", did you make that up? I thought I heard it before:)
>>Bound data works pretty good for for single table, modal forms, Although it seems slower than a hard assign to the value property. When I experiemented with buffering in multi-table forms, behavior was less than predictable.