Drawing compasses are precision instruments, quite complex to manufacture and adjust, which involved hundreds of tiny design and manufacturing improvements over several centuries of expert craftsmanship (practical knowledge now lost, except some textual summaries in 19th century books, 20th century catalogs, and scattered patents). You can't buy anything made today that is anywhere close to the quality of professional compasses from the late 19th century, and quite likely never will be able to again in the future.
> It is sterile.
A good Photoshop operator (or with more time and effort and less capability, a good dye transfer printer with a working darkroom, starting from the most "sterile" negative you can imagine) will blow any film stock you like totally out of the water.
You like having a large company's engineers force their creative preferences about color interpretation onto your art. Other artists prefer to deliberately make those choices for themselves.
Neither workflow is inherently better or worse, but some approaches are better suited to some personalities and artistic goals.
> It is sterile.
A good Photoshop operator (or with more time and effort and less capability, a good dye transfer printer with a working darkroom, starting from the most "sterile" negative you can imagine) will blow any film stock you like totally out of the water.
You like having a large company's engineers force their creative preferences about color interpretation onto your art. Other artists prefer to deliberately make those choices for themselves.
Neither workflow is inherently better or worse, but some approaches are better suited to some personalities and artistic goals.