I’ve got the AR after Syntakt was released, I didn’t care for the additional synth machines as I have a DN and I really wanna focus on exploring FM and also I really wanted the “flagship” model as I never had one.
I have 0 regrets getting the AR even after all the ST updates, it’s a beast of a machine and I love it, it’s very deep and it’ll take many years for me to master it.
personally I still want a flagship machine to be on par with the digis at least in some basic stuff like BW filters (at least for samples), fine tuning params, input mixer, stuff that is kinda standard in the rest of the machines and once you have it you can’t live without
I totally get your point, it’s a whole instrument and I got it for the instrument it is not for the instrument it might be in the future, but like you said, QoL, it’s addicting man, I need some QoL I neeeeed ittt!