Jarick
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I find it a wild defense anyway. If I had a ToneX pedal (I don't!) and I wanted a decent reverb, I've got my pick of about a gajillion pedals out there in the world, and the footprint would still be smaller than Kemper. So I don't really see where this new line of inquiry takes us, other than into another area where we can subjectively weigh up the pro's and cons. Like ... great.... good tactic guise!!!
No, it's a hard stop fail if it doesn't meet the requirements.
I'm a project manager by day. The first thing I have to do with a project is to gather the requirements. Let's say my requirements are to implement software that can send invoices to customers and track their payments. I come back with software that is the most advanced invoicing on the market, but it doesn't track payments. I failed in my delivery because I didn't meet the requirements.
Scale it back to the pedals. Someone wants a product that can capture their collection of amps so they can run direct to the board, plus they want a suite of effects, they want to be able to hit a switch and be able to change their amp sound and effects. And they want it all in one so it's easy to set up and they don't have to mess around with building a pedal board with patch cables and a power supply and a MIDI switcher and all that.
If I come up to them with a pedal board that has Tonex plus a delay pedal and a reverb pedal and a couple drive pedals, guess what I've done? I've failed to meet their requirements. What could I have done? Brought a Kemper, or a Quad Cortex, or a Headrush Prime. All those would meet the requirements.
Now if my requirement was to find a device to get as dead on accurate as possible to recreate the amps? I'm probably going to reach for a Tonex or possibly a Quad/Nano Cortex (UI is much better and can capture on the device itself).
No amount of deflection or martyrdom or insults is going to change the fact that people are projecting their requirements on others and getting pissed off that other people have different requirements and preferences.