I'm the kind of guy that will fish a foot too shallow, for 2 hours, because a 2 minute tippet change is too hard.
When I read about using the "all sighter" leader, Devin Olson described using super light sighter material, and a much shorter tippet section, only two or three feet. With 5x sighter, you can dip it a foot or two in the water if you need to go deeper. A sighter that thin is a lot harder to see than the wax, though.