I am quite ecstatic and overwhelmed with the amount of replies, but this is exactly what forums are all about and I love it, thanks and I'm glad you found this interesting enough to share your thoughts. I wanted to share 2 more things:
1. A little story for those who think that the reason for doing film photography is redundant with this kind of "digitization" in place. The camera I have now belonged to my dad. He was born and lived in Sri Lanka for most of his childhood. Film photography there was not such a commodity as it was in the US or is it now globally. Nor, did he have access to a darkroom let alone neighborhood lab. So him being the cheapskate he was, bought this camera in the 80s and still had like a single roll for an entire year or two. The photos I have of him and information I have about his past life are very limited because of this, for example I found out just a few months ago that he had traveled to Japan and Peru during his time when he was on a shipping container, and of course he only had like 3 photos to verify this lol! When my dad settled in the States obviously he was enamored by the availability of newest and latest tech, so now he swears by digital. He even loves random youtube channels of AI Reggae and when I've been back home that's ironically all he listens to. I took this camera from him when I went off to college and I've kept it for the past 10 years or so; to me the camera has an immense sentimental value to me and keeps me close to him. Like what others have said here, film itself is a test of temptation, and being able to tell the story you want in 36 frames without any reference besides light-metering and your own eye is a good practice of creativity, patience and timing. I explained this same thing to one of my friends who was in awe at it while holding a top of the line Sony Alpha, which is an amazing camera by miles. Someone else said, and I agree, we're grateful to have film in the first place. I support my local film lab when possible, and I have the utmost respect for people who are truly analog
2. The reason I did have a LLM make this is because I am typically a very busy person with day work + freelance + daily life, and rather than mold my working behavior toward (sometimes opinionated*) open-source software, I just created software to mold to my working behavior. Unfortunately that is the route that the software industry is heading toward, where anyone can personalize an interface based on their own workflow, and I've written about that in the past. If you want to build off of this (or critique some code), I made the studio code available on Github: https://github.com/shannadige/35mm-studio - I don't expect to maintain this, so take it and run with it and I hope it helps you out. General practice is to identify a folder where you can scan negatives into, and the pipeline should take care of the rest.