RossF
Legato Fugato
Similar for me. This is based on when I used to gig which is 30 years in the rearview mirror now. There was always tons of equipment and everything was super heavy. Loading up and setting up for the gig was usually safe territory, but tearing down and getting the stuff into the truck wasn't. Didn't matter if someone else was doing it or we were doing it ourselves.This for me, just based on old roadie days. Other folks aren’t always as careful with your stuff, and well, road cases full of amps, pa, lights and stuff can shift in the old, clapped out Mack Tools truck…. That said, I bought two of the premium or deluxe or whatever gig bags. One for my Santana because the case is a beast, and on for my S2 because I liked the first one more than the S2 bag. My use case is in the house or out to lessons, so the protection is adequate.
I remember one gig when we had to share a dressing room/prep area with the headliners (called Iron Head and eventually became Breaker https://citizenfreak.com/titles/268661-breaker-in-days-of-heavy-metal) and after we came off and went to change, we took our guitars back with us for safety. When we went to load the stuff up, someone had taken the clasps off of the other guitars player's Explorer case. Their manager was the only one with a key, but what can you do? I guess a gig bag solves that issue.