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I love my hammock, but I find I need a couple of days to "get used to it" before sleep becomes easy. I used to sleep in it loads more when I had a good tree in the garden and then did a month round Morocco sleeping in it regularly. Now, while I like it, if its the first time in months, I wont get a great nights sleep, although that's not due to comfort, just an odd position.
They can get cold if its cold (under quilt can help) and clearly you need some kind of tarp if its gonna rain, so there can be significantly more faff than just slinging it between a couple of trees and climbing in. You need trees too, obviously.
Scrabble
I'm curious, how many of you bike packers, if any, use hammocks? having had a few terrible nights on the ground I'm planning to switch out to another pad come pay day (the new big agnes axl insulated regular/wide probably as I'm a side sleeping fatty) but the more I read up on hammocks the more i want to have it as an option for some trips. I'm a bit of a pussy when it comes to the idea of wild camping in farmers fields using stealth. but if i could just wander off into some woods and be able to hang up hidden among the trees away from any passers by i think it'd be a bit easier.
also setup and tear down using snake skins seems to take literally 3 minutes so the whole get in, get out unnoticed thing would be much easier.