Absolute garbage take, sorry to be so upfront. NAM is considered among the entire community the best in class, and will remain so for long, long time, because setting up the hardware is expensive and will hurt financially, except if some big player comes along and smahes processing power until no end in their next generation modeler. But even then, NAM will perhaps more likely will be embedded as an industry standard than anything else.
By the way, Francois was not a main contributor, but actually a very toxic and unknowing person spitting his misinformation around. He had this weird perception of anti-aliasing being the absolute worst enemy, which is total bullshit. He spammed multiple groups with his warfare against aliasing, and while at first I thought there was merit to it, but it was in the end cringe-inducing. Some of the others interested in reducing aliasing actually distanced himself it seems. He tried to ban me from his Neural Amp LABS group, to, guess what, I was reinvited.
But the worst was that he posted every.single.step in any group he could find. Even in the NAM Player group, which is totally unrelated, as the NAM Player seems to do it's own conversion of the NAM file, leading again to that weird artefacts being reintroduced.
I myself made a video in his superinput, and given what a weird dude he is, I am seriously considering removing that video from my channel, as I want no affiliation with this person, and to be fair, it is only slightly more efficient in reducing aliasing, but brings a whole can of worms (possible latency issues, longer training time, more customization, deviation from standards which are well established).
Francois was a hack, and it's good he got cast out of the community. By the way, he is constantly creating more and more profiles, like Lucy Stein, and on a forum he also posts as Audio Transformer, I heard...
... ... ... WAIT A MINUTE! ;-)