I had the opposite experience, hated it when I first plugged it in, almost sold it. Decided to keep it because the form factor rules! Glad I did, after a month I'm starting to get some good tones and am content.
I'm not trying to come across as snide or insulting here, but just trying to make a general statement that is kind of relevant to your comment, so don't take this the wrong way.
I'm surprised that we don't see more posts like this though. "Good tone" is just another way of saying "the sound that I want" and all of that is very subjective. People have a lot of different tastes or desires and as a result very different expectations from the gear and what the FAS stuff does better than anything out there is give the user the ability to dial in a wider variety of them which makes it more likely that they can get the sound that they want. This is why I cringe every time that someone says "we don't want so many menus or parameters" because even though most of us can get by with just the basic controls that we would have on the actual amp; when you need those in depth controls it's a godsend.
That doesn't mean that you need to dig into the advanced menus for every patch, but I'd rather have that capability than not. I'll never understand why someone would want less....just don't go into those deep menus if you don't want to.
So I guess that I kind of got off the topic of your post a bit....
Just glad to hear that you stuck with it and it paid off.
As for the OP and getting overwhelmed, just treat it like a real amp. Pick a cab and an amp and stick with the basic settings and don't worry about that advanced stuff. Keep your first patches really simple and just add effects exactly how you would with a pedalboard. 99% of what you will ever need to do can be done with the first page of the menus and then you can start to dig into the advanced stuff later on if you want or come across something that you need to do.
There are two ways that people approach these things.
1. To understand it just enough to make the sound that they want.
2. To master every single thing that it can do.
Neither way is better and neither is wrong, but you have the choice to do either which is great. The good news is the longer you use it the easier the thing becomes to the point that you can't really imagine a better or more logical way to do it.
