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i’m not going to tell you that you are wrong but it wasn’t even a hot day and walls were clean, to apply with small roller and brush out to a nice finish would need 2 people getting very cosy and literally working right behind each roller stroke because the time it would take to put the roller down and pick up a brush (that somehow wasn’t starting to dry itself) was too long to be able to ‘work it’ and get a good finish as it’s too dry.
if i ever decide i have to have a Mylands colour i’ll get you to paint it :-)as to not noticing? i’m a bit obsessive about things like that but i now realise once you are sat on the sofa you can’t really make out the area next to the door frame where you didn’t feather edge the filler very well...
Mr_Smyth-
I've had the opportunity to do some really nice work with proper lining paper and it came out very well. I did the whole job myself with roller and brush, as I said before, you just need to be fast and that tends to come with experience. It helps if you use something like the pelican from wooster. I use something similar that has a roller cage and accommodates a wider roller but there are many available.
Especially the second coat you should be able to paint very quickly. There are times when it's worth putting an undercoat on the walls if you're not lining.
If you are obsessive you'll have to look at lots of extra techniques to achieve a decent finish in painting. Ask me how I know!
Airhead
Some people are sensitive to this, other never notice. I agree a lot of paints have issues with coverage but you need to look at prep and flatness of walls compared to roller size as well. Also roller pile length which helps if the walls are not flat.
With a very small roller a lot of these problems go away then brush out with a 4" brush if you don't want roller 'eggshell'.