If it is easier to machine in my shop...l I will make fortunes. I mostly refuse titanium machining. Just not worth the headache.
My most hated alloy is 30x stainless. I hate the stuff.
My son does very little titanium machining in his shop.
Only somewhat related, just machined a stainless steel fire grate. Pain in the rear.
I lost a pecan tree and did not really appreciate how hot it burns. Melting a store bought cast iron grate. Stainless alloy works great so far.
Apparently, pecan is the hottest burning wood.
Live and learn.
I used to machine a lot of commercially-pure Ti hot extrusion billets. The only good thing about it was that the chips were comparatively light when shoveling out the old Warner & Swasey lathe and moving the 55-gal chip barrels.
Had to grind away extra length when sharpening my 1-9/16” diameter HSS drills because their margins would wear into a reverse taper, causing excessive heat and torque.
You can 3-d print it. They're 3-d printing bicycle frames now. Previously Ti bike frames were made from little more than simple tubes cut to length and welded together. 3-d printing gives them unprecedented levels of design creativity and complexity.
As for pure toughness, they're also 3-d printing Inconel, which I'm given to believe is harder to machine than Ti. Thermal Defense Solutions makes a suppressor made entirely from 3-d printed Inconel. Before, owing to the difficulty fabricating the stuff, the blast baffle was the only part of the suppressor that would be Inconel. An entirely Inconel suppressor should be immortal. Harder than steel and as light as Titanium.