like i dunno i've just never got it aesthetically. you have all these rows of knobs and sliders you can reach out and manipulate, all mounted to the front panels of these beautiful little rectilinear units which are all screwed together into a holistic, bespoke system. and then the way you actually USE them? involves covering the whole thing with fucking noodles all over the place. you keep catching your hand on them. theyre all different colours. just very stressful

functionally also, i find it orthogonal to what i often want. i think the platonic eurorack ideal is a kind of generative art. you configure a dense cyclic graph of multiple interdependent closed-loop control systems. this incidentally produces music. but your job is not to produce music, your job is to play factorio with sound. this is very cool and i enjoy doing it as much as anyone. but mostly i just have musical ideas in my head and i want to use the synthesiser to actually play them

it's a really interesting thing when a product, or an entire industry even, is oriented at about a 45° from the direction you're going. you'll be interested, enthusiastic, but frequently confused by the choices that are made. things you consider essential will be entirely absent, and nobody will even know about or discuss them. i've seen this all the time with like, music tech, cameras, creative software, programming languages and frameworks, it's kind of a universal experience (for me at least)