Rim Without Spoke Access Holes

How hard/fiddly are these to lace, in reality?

I need to replace a rim but before I order I have the choice of whether to go with access holes or not.

Current build doesn’t have them (not built by me) and I’ve appreciated the benefit of not using rim tape, so I’m tempted to go full rim bed again.

Tape the two rims together and swap the spokes one at a time, using a magnet to drag the nips into position. Will probably need to screw a spoke end into the nipple for the magnet to attract it…could be annoying and not worth the hassle over using rim tape?

nips aren’t magnetic?

looks like a right faff

Their purpose is to take away the mild and easily diy’able but ongoing potential faff of tape, in return for one epic bout of totally rubbish and irritating faff, which you can make someone else do in return for money . I didn’t understand this and did it myself once, never again

To be fair this is partly about the tools and also partly about the rim- I had the official fulcrum nipple installing tool for my old ust fulcrums and that helped, but those were also pretty spacious rims internally and the nipples didn’t always want to get stuck. The last one I did which was a cheap chinese rim was just an absolute pain in the arse. Totally ticked that box of “this isn’t working, and I’m sure I’m doing it right but i’s still not working, then at the exact moment you’re ready to throw it into a volcano and not a second before it suddenly falls into place despite you not doing anything different. And I had to do it 28 times. It’s the first time I’ve ever really felt that 28h was much better than 32 just because of doing it 4 less times.