Why do you need to save state?
If you don't, it helps you finish the project and move onto the next one.
And if you do it every day, then you could likely dial in any settings from your own memory quicker that it would have taken to menu dive and load from disk.
I need to save state because I don't finish projects in one sitting, and I don't have enough room (or money) to have different instances of the same machine lying around forever.
MIDI controllers are great (and I even built a couple myself) to let one interact physically with an instrument. But I'm not sure I get the appeal of physical synths.
To each their own though. I'm not trying to convince anyone. I'm just saying the key to more music is not necessarily more physical objects; more software is also great.
