Is consolidation totally worthless? TI2009

Consolidation seems to eliminate the advantages of incremental backups. So far I’ve consolidated based on the number of backups, not size or date. I tell Acronis to consolidate after 10 incremental backups. It might take ten minutes to run the last incremental backup and then it would take three hours to consolidate. It’s probably slower than just running a whole new backup every time. AND, after you’ve hit the 10 file limit, it will consolidate every time thereafter, destroying any reason for making incremental backups.

Can someone confirm if this is really what the Acronis code does? If so, then it’s moronic.

This makes sense:
A. Reached 10th backup? Yes.
B. Make a new full backup.
C. Erase 10 old backups.
D. Start over again with incremental backups.

If consolidation is worthless why have the function? If there is some function to it, or some way to run it so that it makes sense, can someone please tell me what that is.