Every estimating demo looks good out in the flat. The corner is the one place area math can't fake. Here's a one-minute test you can run on anything you're using now.
Corner blocks carry a premium, and the software already rendered them on screen. So why does the takeoff still miss them — and why am I building corner units by hand for every banded color?
I've been doing masonry takeoffs for years. I use spreadsheets and count everything by hand — because the tools that exist don't model masonry. They model rectangles.