I’ve had mine since the early days and it has been great. I bought for bread and butter, the same reason as you, and it does that and way more.
It covers a lot of ground.
I can’t say that I’ve ever experienced any bugs. Build seems fine (I use the keyboard version). The iPad App has issues and doesn’t look to be supported, but other than that, the DeepMind itself seems to be quite stable.
As for the sound without FX, I actually really like the “Initialized patch” with nothing on it. As weird as that may sound.