China shop is fine with me. Carl, care to split the thread? Post 9 seems to be the place where it went south.
And to answer your question, acid demand test is VERY useful when lowering TA.
Only time I ever had to use a base demand is when someone was not paying attention to their pool chemistry and was using trichlor and had a pH/TA crash and that is rare but I do use the acid demand test all the time.