Interesting, with my Celestron CGX, I do a polar-alignment with the polar scope, then just select "last-alignment", even though the telescope has moved since the last alignment. Then I got to plate-solving about three locations in the sky with the setting set to "Sync", after that I typically slew to my target with the setting changed from "Sync" to "Slew to Target" and it usually gets to within  a few arc-seconds on the first slew.
I don't want to spend too much time out in the cold, doing a two star align with four calibration stars, as it is pretty time consuming and would require me to attach a finder scope, which I'm yet to ever use with my current scope.

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