what do you value your time at though? how many rounds/hour can you process?
For me, my time spent at the reloading bench has no value. Same as petting the dogs, watching television, cooking and eating dinner, feeding and working with my horses, working on my race car, watching the sun rise, and the list could go on. These are past times and are pleasurable. The time spent is priceless and cannot be valued.
For decades, i operated a single stage press for metallic cartridge and MEC 600jr's for shot shell. I can load about 100 rounds per hour on either which is is more than enough to keep me in ammunition for the shooting I do including competitive skeet at one time.
A couple years ago, I bought a progressive and shortly after that two more. Not to make more ammunition faster, but to enrich my reloading hobby and make reloading a bit easier by reducing strokes of the press handle. On two the progressives, I have not loaded anything on them in close to a year. A couple evenings at the press made enough ammunition for the year.
The third progressive, I have settled to mostly loading small batches on it, a couple of hundred rounds or so. It is what I enjoy doing and I have made my process easy and quick to change cartridges.
I still load rifle cartridges on the single stage.
I spend 5 or 6 evenings out of seven doing something in the gun/reloading room for at least a little while.
I have equipment to load 28-30 different cartridges--I always lose count. I have equipment to form cases for a few of those.
As I said in an earlier post, I enjoy reloading.
But, as I also implied, it is not for everyone and that is OK.