I don't hate tools, not at all. I just do hate noise dither with a passion. It puts pixels next to each other in ways I'd never allow them to be if I did it myself and creates jaggies, banding, 2x pixel clusters and banding hell.
Maybe spraycan and then edit away stuff? I mean randomness can be good for art. Sure! Anyways he can't go it all over by hand, but he could copypaste portions of dither that he's made by himself without it taking too much time. Anyways control is important yo! : D haha. Well I know we both agree really.