Totally love what you are saying there, brother. I even have an anecdote from a very good friend of mine, a guy in a well-known band that records an album every year and then spends the following 6-8 months touring the World to support it, at least pre-Covid (I may have relayed this story in the past here but it bears repeating): He writes with a Kemper but won't use it to record or for live use. Why? Feel.
And in another related instance, when the band went into the studio about 2 or 3 years ago to record a new album they found that the Neve console they were used to had been removed for servicing . Because the record company needed the new album and was footing the bill they started recording the new material using a digital console. They had gotten about 4 or 5 of the basic tracks down before scrapping everything. All of it. They felt it all sounded terrible going direct to digital. Sure the final mastering was being done in Pro Tools, but the difference in sound quality between going from an analog Neve to whatever digital console into the computer was enough that they scrapped it all and waited for the servicing to be done on the Neve, then recorded everything over along with the rest of the album.
