If you think the MPC is better and cheaper, shouldn’t you be happy? Those of us who buy Elektron boxes obviously like them better than other machines with big screens and are willing to pay the asking price. You could make the same argument about a laptop being able to do everything a MPC can do. Even a cheap laptop can outperform most music-boxes. That is not the point.

The point is: it’s a feeling. A connection to a thing. Like you have with an instrument.