My main objection is that ghost is a thick imaging solution which is the antithesis of the direction Microsoft has been moving for more than a decade. We also started mapping drives in windows PE and imaging 'locally' because the legacy protocols used to image work poorly at scale. We have nursed it along by moving it to newer versions of Windows PE so that it we can use modern drivers. My company uses ghost extensively and I hate it. I feel a little weird replying to this post because I feel like you may be a newish hire at my company.