Horaving over a tosfos for an hour trying to get pshat will get a person more schar than that same person running through all the agadita in HaRo’eh in Berachos with an Artscroll in the same time.
Guess what? Not everyone learns for the schar. I don’t learn the Gemara for the schar of learning… I learn the Gemara because I WANT TO KNOW THE GEMARA. The schar is barely an afterthought by me.
So, I’ll use whatever aides I can find, thank you very much. Don’t like it? Tough.
The Wolf