Sounds like you’re learning toward both and that has to be the best option other than the money.
For me, I would start by thinking what else I would use the new box with or for. If all I was going to have as hardware for like a year was the one item, then OT would have to win because it can do a lot more. In my actual personal decision, it was wanting to integrate so much stuff that the OT’s additional power won out.
So the DT is more compact in size, features, and price, and it’s a lot easier to just go with the workflow and see what happens (I hope I can get there once I have the OT on Monday, but I bet it will take months where the DT took like a week, for me), but I felt like the DT wasn’t as powerful for the kind of exploration that I wanted to do, so devoting myself to the OT felt like a mission and the DT felt like a great tool for what I originally wanted (a way to trigger drum samples with a drum computer), but getting a sense of what Elektron was really about made me rethink everything and want to have a love affair with an OT. It was a tough call and maybe we won’t bond, but I have some high expectations that this winter will be about me and the OT.
[But I’m also using “sound” to mean everything audio-wise, like how the OT can make sounds that the DT can’t make, including stereo but a whole lot more too. I haven’t sat there side-by-side trying to figure out which one, for example, did a better job of playing a specific sample, and I think that might be a way to get a more straightforward answer, if they just got A-Bed. Maybe I’m rambling about sound quality and audio capabilities, but I don’t know the answer and am just considering what other people said in this thread.]