I can see the beauty in not using picks, as I haven't used them for years. But apart from that, do you have any specific reason for me not to use them?
The thing that's good I think is that I can play fretted phrases with more ease. And some of the
slide stuff becomes clearer. The damping is getting there, faster than I thought it would.
I loose one particular sound, the soft touch of fingertips. I can always have that back by just taking the picks off now and then.
If you can't hear the others you're too loud, if you can't hear yourself you've gone deaf