I agree with both of these points. However, depending on what you’re looking for, both things might be a plus. Specular Tempus was my first boutique delay/reverb pedal back when I didn’t know much about the different settings you‘d find in other pedals or plugins. And most of the time, I easily found settings on Specular Tempus that sounded nice and fit the music. By being a bit more in the background or being the dominant part of a sound. I’d say it’s an excellent beginners pedal or great for those who just want something that sounds good most of the time but want a unit where they don’t get lost in sound design. The new one probably still shares this characteristic but will give you more options to deep dive if you want to, but still only four knobs on the pedal.
Something caught my eye that might set this apart from H90:
I love my H90 but will admit the UI feel is a little wonky and confusing at times. I might give this thing a closer look.
Received mine. Couldn’t test. But seriously, jacks 6’35" for MIDI ? That’s beyond impractical.
That’s pretty common on guitar pedals, so that you’ll come into beautiful enjoyment of the expensive cable, adapter and accessory ecosystem. Btw even if it came with DIN, effects pedals tend to not really adhere to the MIDI specs.
The MIDI Box 4 might be your friend. 
You might also consider the Hotone Ampero 2 Stomp. It has all the effects you need in 1 box and the quality of reverbs is up with the big guys. I have compared them with the reverbs of my Eventide H9, Lexicon PCM91 , Mercury X and it can even challenge the big Bricasti M7. You can use a combination of up to 12 (pre-) amp models, IR cabs and classic mod, time, pitch and reverb effects in series and/or parallel. The number of fx slots is only limited by the combined process load. So you can for example set up a gate, compressor, an overdrive with chorus and short reverb in parallel with an amp model, pitch shifter and a long reverb to get a complex effect chain.
Next to the typical stomp box buttons you have a superb multicolor touch screen to select and edit all parameters that is the best I have used so far. I also tried the new Zoom MS-70CDR+ but this is to my ears no competition and sent it back.
What’s this? First time post and no longer active user?
The Ampero looks like a really good deal though, will check some YouTubes for the workflow and sounds.
sneaky users OT
Just use enough negation in your disclaimers and you’ll be not only open and honest, but unconceivably devious ”i am in no way not affiliated with company x, especially not never owning the firm or getting payments from them” 
The Solis Ventus looks dangerously cool 