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Each and every individual has their own needs and way of working.
Some tools fit better for their use some don't.
doesn't make one tool better than the other or worse initself.

As long as it does what I want it to do, the way I want it to, it's the best tool for me, be it a korg, yamaha, kurzweil or ....any other and I respect that decision of others.

It's always good to have some competition that drives innovation and evolution.
both korg and yamaha and likely others too benefit from each other and their tech.

All boards have their weaknesses, and I think we're all slightly biased towards the first board that blew us away - for me that was the M1, but Roland XP series were better in the studio. As the years have passed I've found that dedicated hardware always surpasses PC's for reliability (and boot times definitely) - also, there's just too many sounds now we're becoming very fussy. I had a Roland W30 in 1990 which only let you load about 14 patches and there were no effects either, but I found it so much easier to sit down and finish tracks than I do now, I'm forever tweaking patches, I've spent a whole day just exploring sounds, it's ridiculous.
The fact is there's so much to choose from it's all too easy now to find fault, but how anyone can fault the Kronos piano I really don't understand at all - but then I'm not a pianist. The guitars are weak out of the box, but not if you spend time tailoring them to your taste. Yamaha and Casio were always budget learning boards for me and I can't see (or hear) past those crap old days when they were little more than toys. I love my Kronos, I don't play it, it's too bloody complicated, in fact, I don't know why I still play at all anymore because I get less and less finished the more they pack in. I've got about 3000 'jingles' and bits of ideas.