One comment about my moon shots made me ditch my tripod forever

Tbh I used to haul a beefy tripod up to this hill outside Austin every new moon for like 2 years. Then a guy named Dave at a meetup looked at my stacked image and said, 'You know your stars are soft because your shutter drag is fighting the wind, right?' I felt kind of dumb because he was spot on. So I switched to a lightweight star tracker, bumped my ISO from 800 to 3200, and cut my exposure down to 45 seconds max. The first night out with the new setup I got sharp craters on the moon and way tighter star trails. It cost me $180 for the tracker but I can hike twice as far now. Has anyone else had a random stranger's feedback totally rewire their whole shooting process?

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