To summarize the pros and cons compared to the LMCF approach, in the continuity method finding an initial special Lagrangian is a significant new difficulty. However, we no longer need to confront the extremely difficult task of long time existence for the flow. On a slightly more technical level, provided one has a classification for low index singularities, the genericity assumption is likely to be easier to use in the continuity method than it is in the LMCF framework.