It’s bad on both, IMHO. My only real complaint about the SQ-64.
Though I doubt it’s the reason for the sell off. That’s eminently fixable in firmware (even if there’s no way to tweak the brightness contrast greater, the pads are capable of displaying white. Just make red = off and white = on. Or have off = off. Or…) However rough the patch, it’d have to be more economical than a mass write-off, wouldn’t it?