When to use macros?

Generally, you want to use continuation, then, guard, etc to generate your methods. However, if you prefer to create them manually, it's entirely possible to do so without much effort. A tool like cargo expand may be useful as you can just copy the macro output and customize from there.

One reason you might choose to manually define them is if you want to have custom static logic (that is, known just from the type and not a value-filled instance) to decide if a method should be Some or None. If it does not need to be static logic, a compile_if can be used, or the static logic can go inside a compile_if.