I'd argue the opposite, the DX7 worked great because it came with good presets and you could expand it with those cartriges, although programming your own was a

I'd argue the opposite, the DX7 worked great because it came with good presets and you could expand it with those cartriges, although programming your own was annoying as heck. But most people cared about getting the newest sounds and at max tweaking them slightly, which was a pain. But the FM engine was/is immensly powerful and the sounds are to that day extremely iconic. Just as a visualization for the parameters that DX7 hides from its users behind that interface, Matrixsynth made thebDT7 which puts all parameters on knobs and it looks like this: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEDuzORvU79oWmb35BFoTKWBlWygckRkPl30pOvFlCgqJKi5o1OXn0vBwBF6N8RUMMQk1wvLdKBQQgT7i3nHj5mYBXKQJGFwPteVH8Ddp8KhtmVGNfBc0qd3lCzdie8sNS2imGLfNCsjPJtmvD0OUH9Lx894csz_mq4qR-dnXdWaLMUAhRog/s1600/2.webp https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj...