I totally understand where you're coming from. It does seem like most of the people that make music with modular seem to make more ambient music, which isn't my

I totally understand where you're coming from. It does seem like most of the people that make music with modular seem to make more ambient music, which isn't my preferred music genre. Here are a few of my personal reasons why I like using modular: - It's helped me learn more about how synthesizers work. When I first started using synthesizers, I relied so much on presets that I never quite figured out how to design patches myself. Modular synthesis really forced me to learn what each module was doing and make strategic changes to get the sound I wanted. This was a somewhat steep learning curve, but it has been wildly beneficial. - Generally synths have some kind of limit on what you can do somewhere. With VCV Rack specifically, I can add as many oscillators as I want. I can modulate whatever I want. I haven't found a limit yet. I'll admit that most of the time I don't need to go to such extremes and a normal synth is good enough, but when I do want to go crazy I go for VCV Rack. - On the flipside of that, sometimes it's fun to limit yourself. There are challenges that people do to make a patch with only 3 specific modules (for example). It stretches your creativity to learn how you can make an interesting sound with such harsh limitations. - Sometimes I have writer's block. In those moments, it feels great to just stick a sequencer on a random setting and put it through a quantizer to generate some ideas that I can build on. Overall, if you don't feel like you would benefit from modular synthesis I don't think you should have any FOMO about it. Making music is all about what works for you, because most listeners on the other side don't really care about what tools you used to make it.