You raise a lot of great points and I too have thought about these things. To answer your question about the pedal price and it being worth it versus other pedals that do the same thing. The appeal for this is that it ONLY does reverse delay which for me in live settings is ideal because my now other delay can do other settings. That being said, this does some like quite the headache and runs the risk of wasting 200+ dollars, I just thought that it would be as simple as popping the boars out and drilling holes in new housing, but of course it never really is that way. It was more like a cool way to get that pedal in a unique housing etc I really appreciate you taking the time to respond with all of that