I've got a unisaurus (unisaw) in my shop and it'll eat wood, fingers, hot dogs.... total omnivore. I feed it a not-so-steady diet of wood only.
If I used my saw in a production setting or had employees running it routinely, a Saw Stop would be a no-brainer. It would need to be sufficiently rigid and adjustable, but the safety feature would take a much higher priority. As a hobbyist, I'm more concerned with kickback, and have added a riving knife to my unisaw.
Saw stop's overreaching marketing tactics are obnoxious, but would not stop me from buying one to suit a purpose. There's nothing personal to me about a business doing what a business does, aggressively seeking market share, leveraging their strength or uniqueness in the marketplace. Theirs just happens to be a safety feature, so their strategy felt like an attempt to regulate. They pushed it like they were saving lives, and in the process found out just how much people's fingers are worth to them. I guess we've all made that calculation.
They enjoy considerable tailwinds from the insurance industry. Overall their strategy seems to have worked, without any regulatory change.
Now that I have a Ryobi cordless track saw, I don't know how much I'll use a cabinet saw. Always wanted a festool for sheet goods, but was never worth the $. Have not used a track saw much so I don't actually know that it'll replace the unisaw. Depends on if I can setup cuts at waist level because my crunchy farmer bod cannot work on the ground.