I don’t really check them that often and so far if the end has some honey in it, the frame is capped in my climate. I don’t need to pull anything out. If the booming hive in the yard is full then it’s time to harvest. No need to check them all to decide that, just check the ends to decide which frames to harvest.
I only need enough buckets that the first one is done by the time I set up the last one. The lid can be moved to other buckets. Putting them away for winter would depend on the climate, but in mine, yes, they would need to be pulled off in the fall. But they wouldn’t have to be pulled off to extract, put back on to clean up and then pulled back off in the fall which is what I do with my supers normally. That’s a lot of work. It certainly is not financially viable on a commercial scale at the current price but if the frames drop in price eventually it could be. Have you seen a “modern” maple syrup setup?