Yeah I don't get why he got mad about that. Here's the link to the direct quote from Fractal:
There isn't a GUI on an audio interface Not that I'm defending the touchscreen, because I agree with you that I don't want one on guitar gear, but there are touch screen GUIs on most digital mixers these days. Maybe not on audio interfaces, but definitely on live sound "interfaces". It's...
forum.fractalaudio.com
I don't see how you can interpret that as anything other than "Our next gen product is going to be so good that it will make competing products look like a Game Boy". The only vague part is
how it's going to do that. Since it's Fractal, I expect they are going to have the most powerful modeler ever made - with a user interface that does not compete with HX Stadium. I'd love to be proven wrong, but IMO a workflow that does not compete with HX Stadium keeps Fractal in the "looks like a Game Boy" category. Processing power is not Fractal's current problem.
I think the complaints about bass stuff are 100% valid. Adding e.g 20W Marshall models to the Fractal unit makes fuck all difference when they could instead add more bass amp models that actually offer bassists something new rather than "sounds 99% the same as existing models" for guitarists.
Fractal gets very defensive in that thread with the "well just use something else", and that's what people are going to do if they don't want to improve those parts of their products. I'd never recommend Fractal to a bass player in its current state. Not because the existing bass stuff doesn't sound good, but because other products that are cheaper provide better options.