I restrained from posting in that thread too. First, I avoid time-sucking threads. Second, I don't want to appears as I'm justifying myself, I don't think I have too (I shared full banks of free presets since 2009 before going "commercial" this year only – as a means to be able to keep it ; else I would have sold the Axe because I needed money for real life issues). Third, if ever there was a consensus that we are "breaking a community" (even if I received countless emails of guys thanking me, as they were going to sell their Axe-Fx/AX8 before getting my presets), what I would do is stop selling… but stop sharing too. I'd keep the presets for myself.
The KPA community has a large number of commercial profiles makers. I don't understand why it is a big deal here. And I don't buy the argument "everyone can learn to tweak". Over the last 30 years in Mauritius countless guitar players have come to see me to program their multifx because they don't know how to do it. Some people just don't have the necessary frame of mind for that, that's all. I can take all the jazz lessons in the world, or dance lessons, I will never be a jazzcat or avoid embarrassment to my gf on the dancefloor. What you pay for is not a few parameters adjustments… it's for the thousands of hours perfecting that