Baking -from scratch, or not from scratch

Over this past weekend, I baked my first batch of brownies from scratch. They turned out fairly well and I was glad with the results. Yet I’m not sure if bothering to make them from scratch is worth it. I wish I’d had a prepared batch from a box mix to compare. If brownies made from scratch are good, but brownies from the box are also good… do you really need to bother making them from scratch? Would anybody appreciate the effort or notice any difference? (Okay… so if you have all the necessary ingredients… it wasn’t that much extra effort –but I am still torn about this debate in my head.) So I’m curious what other people typically do and what they prefer. Baking brownies… from scratch, or not from scratch? I’m still undecided.