Fwiw, I'm just putting a GT-1000 through its paces (will post a dedicated thread once I've played my first gig with it on the 17th, which will be the first opportunity to explicitely use just the GT for, even if I could add an analog pedal side-car - but what's life without challenges?).
And had I bought it before anything else, I'd possibly have a different opinion on many things. I absolutely can't believe how Boss manages to cram such opposite stuff in one single package.
Some things are just plain gorgeous (IMO their hardware and certain functions such as global blocks, which is why I mainly bought it for), some have instant gratification written all over them (most FX - just switch them on at their defaults, tweak for 10 seconds or not at all and you're fine) and some things are a blatant offense of my intelligence, or even of human intelligence in general (such as their editors and partially their on-unit editing).
You don't find such a mess in the analog amp-and-what-not world. Things are established and they're established for a reason. With Boss, things are established just in their own Boss-verse - and there's no reason for them to be established.
Amazingly enough, I could bet that the GT will become a keeper, though (it's just perfect for some things I need to do and might even become my choice for things that I never planned to use it for).
