This is a slippery slope, IMHO. It can easily get you to be the next "tactical tornado" of your team (cf. John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design).
I also worked for 10 years at a small movie theater in Italy, and very much share what you described. The noises, the lights, the repetitive and almost ritual actions.
A very nice illustration the projectionist's life is told in the excellent movie "Cinema Paradiso" [1,2].
Has anything changed significantly since 2014 that would make today's cellphones more efficient at detecting gammas?
IIRC the tiny size of the cmos camera was the limiting factor...