But still Axe Edit is much faster and more easy than the new front panel I guess.
So, 1st off ... I don't have a III in my hands so this speculation based upon decades of using other gear.
I find that optimized, manual controllers can be far better at navigating a device versus a generic controller of a mouse/click.
Don't know how old you are - and you may have lived through this - but when "virtualization" of real gear into the digital domain started, people were clambering for dedicated controllers i.e. volume faders where you could quickly be "hands-on" the mixer versus dragging a cursor over and moving a virtual fader on screen.
(This is how we worked in the studio forever - manual knobs, sliders, buttons/switches, etc. Sometimes it got worse i.e. had an old Roland Juno-2 synth with a tiny 1 or 2 row LCD screen, and those nav/edit damn buttons - Some years later I bought a Roland JD800 just to have every possible controller physically represented on the surface of the keyboard for easy, faster nav/edit. Waveform, ADSR, LFOs all right there, ready to go ... Same could be said for Roland's R8 drums rack versus the one with the pads ... kinda miss all that kit. Well, maybe not. 
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These kinds of purpose-dedicated controls/devices were boutique and expensive, but optimized for music production (versus virtualized gear with a generic input controller e.g. mouse/trackball + click). They worked well because they are made to do certain things quickly and efficiently.
From what I've seen, I think FAS has done the same thing with the front panel to the degree that they could. Look at the CabLab feature (video in reviews?) where you can mix 4 IRs with dedicated knobs far faster than you could mouse over, click and mouse more to change value (3 efforts versus one). This method prevails over many features in the device, i.e. amp block for initial set-up page of Input, B,M,T, P, MV, ect. etc.
Now, I'm not saying Axe-Edit is pointless. That wouldn't be close to true. I use it extensively and still believe it's a critical tool for an AXEFX owner.
But, I'm making the case that customized/optimized dedicated controllers are sometimes far more efficient. And, I realize no one approach is for everyone.
FWIW in 1990, was a co-founder of a small SW company, so I learned to write HTML in VI and shortcuts work well. IIRC, just from root: chmod -r
And, no - I'm not a coder; I used to bridge the gap between tech and business leadership, so all the software engineers called me something far more pejorative. But I learned what I needed to - man, that was a long time ago.
