I actually feel like the workflow is better once I've exported the necessary profiles. It gets appended to the profiles list and I can easily switch between printer profiles. I've yet to edit the fff files, but I could make it even better if I combined a couple of my profiles and took use of the auto-configure material/quality settings. Exporting also helps if you delete a process by accident just add a new one and you'll still have all the profiles you've previously exported: