grumpy...nothing really wrong with what you are doing. A RUGF will be better in the long run for the bacteria in the substrate, if you are not a consistent tank maintenance person.
A lot of recent folks to the hobby have never used UGF or RUGF and just post what they have heard about them, without any first hand exerience. The next group that will tell you how bad they are, are the folks who overstock, over feed, and/or do not maintain their tanks correctly. They have determined the UGF are old school.
Pretty funny, eh?