Thanks, Morgan, I absolutely agree with each statement of yours, but if you read my comments you’d find out that I’m not happy with Hugin because I cannot store settings. Save for the control points (of course they have to be generated each time), there are tons of other settings to be dialed manually each single batch Just to name a few: geometric, photometrics, exposure, projection, output, etc. Even though I don’t need to adjust them, but just add to the pipeline. Each single time I need check in different tabs, instead of storing all settings as a template.
This image is optimized, but got manual adjustment too - that’s why it looks better than the first one that I didn’t adjust.