Tedious. Is a word I would use to describe the experience with this guy whether gathering or fighting(especially in heavily wooded areas). I mean I can't count how many times I had to go to my inventory to dump ALL THE WOOD in there from just picking off the annoying raptors whose idea for mass extinction is death by tickle. So yeah, other than it's weight and lack of weight reduction for anything, I've no gripe about it. It can gather anything you need to quickly set up a forward operating base, can kill most things short of alphas, gigas, higher lv rexes/spino etc with ease. Its base HP and scaling is low but good enough for it's purposes. It's a combat engineer anyway and not a main battle tank.

Oh taming also requires dedication, serious dedication.