chainmail scrubber

Pros

• I feel like chainmail is a long game. Over time it gets the finish nice and smooth. It kinda forces you to use elbow grease while limiting unwanted damage to the "good" seasoning
• The difference is that chainmail is easier to clean and is not as disposable like many people treat steel wool. To me steel wool gets nasty quick- where my chainmail has the versatility of the wool but I can clean it with a bristle brush.
• I find it very useful to remove gunk after cooking than say a metal spatula. Very useful and keeps my pans clean.
• Have it. Love it.
• I mainly use it to get those last bits of carbon off, or to get through very stuck on food, but rarely use it over the whole surface.

Cons

• My experience is exactly the same as yours. Underwhelming product, a scouring pad and some steel wool for the harder to remove bit is all I need.
• I bought this chainmail online to clean up some used pans I obtained. ... It barely does anything. Good old steel wool performs way better with half the elbow grease.
• Complete waste of money. Most of the stuff comes off with a plastic scraper. If it doesn't, boiling some water in the pan and scraping with a metal spatula was easier and way more efficient than anything I ever did with the chainmail.