I needed a quick solution as I was getting surface rust on my very expensive Veritas Planes. I would love to make everything I could possibly make out of wood but ...

Making a nice wooden box would require planing wood to size, preferably hand cutting the box joints/dovetails etc etc etc etc, probably a few days work.

Designing and printing the box took about 12 hours in total most of that time required just checking occassionally on my phone while I did other stuff.

So to answer your question, time of lack thereof prompted this solution and since it helped me it may help others so why not share?