I use a metal drain pan that is only a few inches tall. This does away with the need to jack up the car.

I just drive in with hot engine, put the pan underneath, pull the plug, loosen the oil filter cover enough to vent and go in the house. If it's good weather, I wait a few minutes for the oil to drain out of the filter cannister and pull the old filter.

The next morning I pull the pan out of the way, put in the plug, pull out the filter (if I left it in overnight,) wipe out the cannister, pour some oil in the cannister, then put the oil filter in place and tighten it down. Then fill the crankcase with oil.

To me, the oil filter is more of a hassle than removing and replacing the drain plug. You still have to hassle with the oil filter regardless of the "drain" method.

If you get a pan that will go underneath without jacking up the car, that alone will probably save more hassle than the rest of the operation. It seems to me that if you don't have to jack up the car, removing and replacing the drain plug would be much less hassle than using the topsider gizmo, and you won't be out the money for the gizmo. Also you won't have to stay out in the cold operating the gizmo, you can just pull the plug and let gravity take the place of the gizmo effort while you're inside having something hot to drink.

You will have many people give you all sorts of justifications for using the sucking device. There will even be some that will go so far as to try to tell you that it gets out MORE oil.

Best of luck,