I have to admit I kind of agree with your first premise... It's why I have a five year old arranger with not the slightest interest in anything new, and why I used my previous arranger (G1000) for ten years before I made the jump to the G70.

My previous arranger had the amazing Chord Sequencer feature, which allowed me to use style mode and STILL play like a real keyboard player (not the poor crippled one-hander that arrangers usually force you into), so a large percentage of what was heard was MY playing, not the machine's.

And my current arranger has by far the best tools to tweak translations and legacy styles so they sound as good as the ROM styles, and I have a never ending supply of new styles to keep both my and my audience's interest up.

But I have a sneaky suspicion that so many of us trade up or across because we are relying on the arranger to do the majority of the work, rather than our own skills as players, so repetition boredom quickly sets in, and most arrangers make it fairly complicated to tweak translations to a high level.

I think I might make a move IF Roland brought out a new TOTL arranger with everything the G70 has, plus a decent sampler with tempo locked loops, but otherwise, I think that I have all I need to perform live music at a pretty high level for maybe the rest of my career.

Mind you, if they reintroduced the Chord Sequencer, I would HAVE to get it, no matter what else they got wrong