the truth in my mind is that it all depends on who you are handing it off to and how well they can work with the models. I have had manufacturing engineers and design engineers LOVE the parent model when i showed them - i had others who threw hissy fits.
down stream cad modeling is more about making sure the model is editable and doesnt blow up. Not too long ago there was a outside eng. resource you against instructions (to save time) simply used the scale feature when they needed to make a change to the models - it then got to a point where they said they could no longer make changes to the model and would need 3 weeks to rebuild it from scratch at a cost of X to me.
How do you think that conversation went…