My fractal gear is the only gear I have that gets consistently better as time goes on. Consider how rare that is- a piece of consumer electronics that six years after it's introduction is much more capable than the day it was introduced-
it's pretty extraordinary, and one of the biggest (but not the only) reasons why I'll continue to buy fractal products. My Axe 3 is the best gear purchase I've ever made, and I felt that way about my old II, and my old Axe Fx Standard before that. It's ridiculously useful- at church, I play it straight in, and it sounds great, reliable, easy to tweak... then at home, I can play it into my studio monitors or headphones for amazing tone at any volume... or I can hook it up to my w/d/w Swart rig as a monstrously capable pedalboard (it is impossible to describe how huge that rig sounds), or I can run it with my Tucana 3 in 4CM as a compact mono rig that can go anywhere and do anything spectacularly well... I love my Axe 3, and when the 4 is introduced, I really doubt I'll get rid of my 3- it's just too useful!
And of course, if I'm lazy, the FM9 does all the same stuff just as well! We're spoiled!