For me, and I am probably a tiny minority, I am not into for any modeling, I am into it because of the way that it sounds and responds to my playing and the pure genius of routing abilities, effects, recording, control and everything unimaginable as far as output sources. Modeling or amp building, either choice the wheel was invented long ago and anything in today's world is just a continuation..... I think of it as the best audio source available to play guitar thru with unlimited tones to be had by all. And amp and a cab will always be cool, in 1978 someone created a sound that changed rock guitar, and it was a sound no one had any idea how to get, since then it's been on going and that sound is easily found from many applications, so amps will always be amps, the great reality is the ability to get a whole lot more with a whole lot less. Nothing will ever replace genius and raw talent, no matter whether it's a pig nose or a plexi stack or a complex CPU preamp. Cheers