Right, Uncle Dave. I borrowed a friend's new Yamaha powered mixer, the one with 3 power amps. Sure enough it was pretty neat to have stereo and monitor power at the same time.
However, the thing is way underpowered. I was pushing it to run 2 keyboards and 2 vocals. Also, the effects were very limited.
I haven't used many EV products lately, but the Peavey units have excellent digital signal processors, and also have the built-in Feedback Eliminators that show instantly which frequencies are peaking.
And Peavey has always had a great number of patching options.
DonM