Between day to day household use, hunting, and keeping up with work here on our property, I spend quite a bit of time keeping all manner of edged tools sharp. I use a Sharpmaker for everything from a 2" skinner to a Kukri. It's pretty easy to keep a working edge on stuff without spending a bunch of time doing it.
I think it would work fine for you unless you are terribly OCD. The bevel on my knives are probably off a couple of degrees. They work fine and are still very sharp and I cut things with them. For some folks that would mean the knife is "ruined" and needs to be discarded or at the very least re-ground. There are also folks who spend several hundred dollars on fancy stones to sharpen a $100 knife and sit there for hours muttering about "my precious" under their breath. The Sharpmaker isn't very good for them either.