Right on, John ... I've always felt that the on-board demos were there to show the 'potential' of the KB ... but it is potential that 99.99999% of us will never achieve because we lack SOMETHING - whether it be the expertise, time, desire, need, or ALL of the aforementioned - whatever ...
Personally, I preferred to put in enough time to make my KB sound good -to me, and therefore, hopefully my audiences - and spend the REST of my time PLAYING it ...