No worries Ed. I've been on more than enough forums over the years. Threads constantly go off topic. It's to be expected.
I agree. Developing is quite easy. But, I have a very limited amount of time available in the darkroom each week. As I'm currently focusing on getting my portfolio together, producing prints is far more important than developing film. plus, I feel that developing is a fairly cut and dried process. There's small tweaks you can do of course, but for the most part it's all the same. Printing can take a lifetime to really learn it. So I think that printing is again, just a better use of my time.