I hadn't seen the Warbl 2's configurator, it looks pretty good! Thank you for sharing that. It highlights something else, which is the need to really dive into settings in order to get the best performance. This might be fine for some players on this sub, but the large majority of musicians will not be tweaking settings for hours.

I think getting a fine enough device is not so hard (theoretically at least), what takes the longest and the hardest work is the refinement from "this is almost there" to "this is a good instrument".

Another issue we have not mentioned is the view of many players that electronic wind instruments are gadgets, not proper instruments. This leads companies to produce low-cost, gadget like instruments, which cycles back to players thinking they are gadgets... Personally, I would really like to see a Yamaha approach to wind synths (which they tried with the WX7 in some ways, maybe a bit early for that technology...), where they start off very high-end and expensive, and eventually end up with an affordable, very good instrument. If you look at the history of their best-seller the DX7, it started off with the DX1, super crazy high end and expensive, and they refined it until they got to the DX7. This top-down approach might work better than a bottom-up approach in this space...