If I didn't get a lot of snow, I guess I could understand what you are doing, but the front mounted blower is great for snow removal if, like me, you will spend many hours at it on may different occassions, and the snow comes and stays for several months at a time. Today I went out and blew about 5" of fresh low moisture content snow. It only takes about 35 minutes from start to putting it away, because I can cruise quite fast looking forward.
Right now, in my own case, I have no need for a FEL I haven't seen the ground since Thanksgiving. Once the snow is gone then I will switch the blower out and put on the FEL.