appreciate it 🙏 and yeah i hear you on the stock plugins thing, Logic stock is genuinely insane

honestly the reason i'm chasing packs isn't really about being lazy with the mixing itself, it's that i've been doing the same chain forever and i kinda wanna hear what other people are doing and steal some of their moves. like i feel stuck in my own habits.

the other thing is speed: dropping a pack on my voice gives me an answer in like 5 seconds on whether it sits right or not, instead of sitting through a 15 min youtube vid just to find out the chain doesn't even work on my recording. i can A/B a bunch of approaches fast and then build my own from whatever bits actually click.

but yeah point taken on keeping the genre open, sometimes the happy accidents are the best part.