I mean, you’re certainly welcome to your feelings here, but I’m not sure comparing the 2hp system and the ALM system is really “apples to apples” aside from the both conforming to eurorack standards. The Squid Salmple itself is a good module and sounds perfectly fine on it’s own. You can mix within it. You could have a system with just the Squid and sequencing very easily, which makes it a great module for this particular thread - not to mention it can sample and play back CV on some of those channels.
If you want “spacious spectral mixing” then modular is a very expensive complex way to do that, as the format has really only begun to add stereo signal paths quite recently. You can still do plenty of good work with that ALM system if that’s how someone wants to work. It may not be your interest, but there are probably better targets for your ire. It just seems like the 42/54 hp thread is a weird spot to gripe about such things, as the entire point of this thread is to try to do a lot in a very small space.
