But there are a lot of parameters to change using these awful little LCDs.
Instrument design is a topic most musicians are only peripherally aware of.
Certain aspects of the music are going to be dictated by the nature of the input structure, and by the correlation between that and the sound-generating structures. Our traditional input structures have been designed to efficiently set physical bodies into vibration. But electronics technoloy offers us an incredible freedom from the direct connection found in traditional instruments between that which we touch and that which vibrates and creates sound. An electronic instrument that's well designed won't become obsolete. But the tendency is for engineers to design musical instruments, and they design from the inside out.