Oh that is interesting. I always think those little TE units sound great and I love what others do with them in live jams, but the price and workflow makes my brain wince. It's cool to see them experimenting with pricing. Taking yourself into unfamiliar workflows sounds like a great way to steer yourself toward different results.

I'm relatively new in my journey with keyed instruments. I went into it originally wanting a synth of some sort, but the gf says her ears bleed from me watching gear video. I ended up with a Mark I Rhodes, and that lead me to taking piano lessons, so now I'm at the opposite end of where I started, though I hook my Roland piano to a laptop to play with VSTs and I have a Verselab to do electronic stuff when she's out doing stuff.

It's amazing how different the Rhodes, the piano, and a synth or organ are to use in a way that sounds correct, even though they all look like the same instrument. I feel I developed a lot musically from messing with all of them and I've learned to appreciate sounds and styles and genres I never would have pictured myself as interested in before.

I hope you have a lot of fun with it!