A couple of points raised in the thread:
Chromatic mode works better using a midi keyboard then the pads IMO.
The synthesis can seem limiting if you only use the main page mostly, but if you think of it like a traditional subtractive synth and bring the filter, envelope and fx into play, and think of the synthesis machine as your oscillator (especially the noise and dual vco) some interesting non drum sounds can be made.
I really don’t like to try to talk someone into or out of any gear, but I do think that sometimes looking at the gear from a different perspective can help to make the decision to keep or not.
I’ll be the first to admit (and I have moaned about them in the past) that some of the analog drum synthesis machines could be tweaked - especially the sweep/envelopes in the machines themselves, which don’t always sound very natural in their response as to be suited for a lot of the drum sounds that I like.
But there is enough elsewhere within the machine to keep my interest, and I can easily use sampled drums to layer or replace the analog machines where needed.