I think Nord is chasing a market that appreciates the flexibility of making on the fly drawbar adjustments with the added convenience of having the new preset you call up be already at the correct position. If you have a hardware setting and switch presets, then the bars are all in the wrong places ... Nord fixed this and still kept the real time adjustments handy. i know an old school purist may miss the 'feel", but you can't really say that it's a drawback since it works the same and even better in some cases, as I mentioned.