PK,

i am a hobby WW as well and started with KF700SP with 2m slider. that was fine when i was otherwise employed and worked small projects. few yrs before retirement my workload at real job settled and i started spending more time in the shop and i realized the limitation of the saw shaper.

i sold my separate Jointer and planer and got a felder combo J/P. i find that considerably more palatable than saw/shaper. for one you are not removing things and putting them elsewhere like a shaper hood and various hold downs. secondly a DRO on planer allows you to go back to previous setting.

then i got a felder saw and now my KF serves as a shaper. if space and funds do not allow it is an easy call. i rather have a saw/shaper vs saw only. also, as others have pointed out, if you projects are small and you are not working on multiple things KF will be fine also.

imran