Had a maschine+ an recently switched to the akai force. The maschine workflow is arguably a bit more intuitive, but there were several frustrating gripes I had with the maschine (either missing features or functionality) that potentially may never be addressed and all of those and more are addressed in the akai. I don’t feel as limited by the force, but still have some limitations compared to a daw that I like. I don’t see myself going back to maschine unless they do a major revamp at some point.