Sadly that is true even if you wanted to try it again.
My take on any of these meters is that I would not want to use them even with a hand held camera. I have not had a high success rate with averaging reflective meters when used on a shoe. If they offered an incident mode I think they would be much more useful.
I’m sure they can be made to work and with roll film and static subjects I’d probably bracket any difficult scenes. But without bracketing I’d trust a phone light meter app more. And combined with a gray card you could use then as an inconvenient incident meter.
Those mini coupled meters seem to all have an ill-repute for questionable durability. I don't think I'd want to rely on something that needs to be replaced every few years.
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