The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:

I hate the B&D workbenches...you cant get a good sweep of the hand plane
because the workbench wants to take the plane elsewhere other than the
wood.

That's why I weighted mine with so much geology. Still, if you use hand
tools all the time, especially planes, my bench would only just get you
by in a pinch.

The reason I got the Craftsman instead of the B&D is durability.
Reviews of the B&D tend to note really flimsy packaging that results in
damage, plus some fussy, breakable parts in the clamping mechanism.