While you seem to enjoy complex setups, I prefer simple ones.

I share however your fascination for predicament set-ups.

With time every bondage becomes a predicament. Also here I prefer simplicity. I have spent hours in a hog-tie. It is not really painful (as long as you don't get muscle cramps), but it is annoyingly uncomfortable. You change positions all the time to find a half-way comfortable position that within minutes becomes very uncomfortable.
But my best experience is always when I spend days in a straitjacket. Initially it doesn't feel too bad. But with time the wrists, arms and shoulders start to hurt. And you will only find sleep if you give up to it.
Obviously in both scenarios, you are at the mercy of the domina. She has control over the tightness of the hog-tie or the strait-jacket.