I am not asking you why but rather telling you why; you are a musician! I did see the Continuum Mini after I bought a sample player on Kickstarter. It looks really cool, and as you mentioned the big Continuum is four grand and this one is only 500 Euros. I might have jumped on it had I not bought the sampler player, but it seems that you have to learn a new skill to play it. When I tried out the Seaboards by Roli at NAMM, I could just play them like a standard keyboard though they feel very different.