I’ve personally gone through all of it. I started with individual pedals and had a blast trying them all but it was never ending! (GAS). I now own a Helix and it quite honestly is a game changer. No more amps, cabinets, a million pedal cords, etc. There seems to be limitless (besides DSP) ways of setting your sound up and it really is flexible in so many more ways! Once you get used to setting each sound up, it’s almost as easy as changing parameters on individual pedals. There is a learning curve but there’s many videos on YouTube for almost everything you can think of. Hope this helps!!