to strip or to spirit run?

[Pepper0715]

so i understand that a stripping run reduces the time to distill large volume mashes. it pulls out as fast as you can. this is a fast process, say for example a 13 gallon pot, no thumper with a 10g mash takes 3 hrs to strip and get 1 gallon. then the spirit run comes next

spirit run aids in flavor.. so again, we have a 13g pot still no thumper, but with only, say a 4 gallons of water and the 1 gallon of striping run product, for a grand total of 5 gallons. now we run slow. it takes another 4 hours.
so
stripping run took 3 hrs lost some flavor
spirit run to 4 hrs
total run time of 7 hrs.including alot of break down and cleaning and resetting up.why? other than mash size, why not do a slow 7 hr run to start wtih so you can savor the flavers? seems like alot of work to do both (mash size dependent), plus your flavor lose durning the stripping run would be avoided....

my first two runs were slow and low spirit runs (only because i was new). the flavor carryed over well. took along time. i even post here about how to speed things up.the last two runs were stripping runs. i ran hot and fast. aka i sped things up.

now i know whats best for me
yes stripping was way quicker, did i lose flaver? IMO, yes alot of it, just smells like alcohol, no fruity notes at all and i must say it seems a bit more harsh to the taste. they taste and smell nothing like my first to runs. NOTHING LIKE

i have one more 10g all corn mash ready to go and i may dump what i collected from the two striping runs into this one and run slow and low to try and salvage some flavor that i stripped out.

after running both ways i have concluded im not a stripping run fan for my 13g setup and the reason is there is very little flavor that comes over and i like flavor. its slow and low going forward on my 10g mashes. opinions welcome.