It’s really crazy how different experiences can be. Seems to be a polarizing issue. Either you love it or not.
But only from YT demos, I may had not bought me for example a Moog, which would be sad.
IMO, Synths are tools, to produce, not to provide. It’s all up to the person in Front of it, and to the Relationship between human and machine(sound). Sometimes, it just don’t fit.
I totally understand and agree, that choices of spending money in such things should be carefully taken. And that people want to get as much value for their money as possible. But no matter what cheap or expensive machine it is, you work with. There will always be the effort, that YOU put in there, effecting your results. Never expect the axe to put on the campfire.
For me, especially soundwise, the Digitone is a permanent sweet spot. I can’t praise it to much.
But everyone should judge on its own.