Why is FUE not a popular surgery? (from Reddit)

As the person who pioneered FUE, it is now the most popular hair transplant done world-wide. The doctors starting doing FUE when I published the first paper on the subject here: https://newhair.com/pdf/mp-2002-fue.pdf. The public started to demand it and within a year doctors from all over the world were offering, but doing it very poorly. Then I licensed the hair transplant robot that we invented in 1998 to hopefully standardize the FUE. Overtime, instruments got better and better and so did the doctors. Now, in every country in the world, FUE is a standard procedure for hair transplantation. Be careful as not all doctors do FUE well. I have been doing it since 1995.