I wouldn’t say its any harder to work with than the Monomachine is. Probably easier in a lot of ways, although there are more features overall. Switching between Edit pages is faster due to dedicated buttons for them as opposed to having to cycle through them, and the performance page option makes tweaking specific parameters a lot easier since you won’t have to quickly cycle through different Tracks and Edit pages.
It’s really just the minor placement of things that differ on each Elektron that throws me off. With the A4, I constantly reach for the upper left-most knob to adjust Track volume since that’s where it is on everything else, so I end up tweaking some random parameter instead since the “Level” knob is to the left of the LCD screen.
Other than that, no real complaints!