I would complain, if their forecasts had ever been accurate!
As it is, isn't sacrificing a chicken and reading the entrails more accurate than a TWN forecast?
Plus, for overnight trips, it's way easier to dry out a separate inner than it is to dry out a leather boot.
And if you forget your pee bottle you can just piss in the shell and empty it out the door
Overboots are . You will climb faster and more better with warm dry feet. Plastic boots are nice and rigid... if you are kicking steps all day, nothing beats a plastic boot. The lightness of leather only becomes noticeable on technical climbing. For hiking, there really is no difference.
If you're gonna brag about how much you can spray then get prepared to kiss my feet, bitch. The only ones who could ever keep up were Iain, trask and caveman.
If you are going to be standing in wet spring snow all day, plastics will keep your feet warm and dry. No matter how you wax'em, spring snow postholing in leather boots will give you wet feet.
In summer, leather boots are better.