It really just expands their market to people who don't want to invest in their interfaces. I honestly don't see how this update is relevant at all to the quality of their hardware. The A/D conversion is top notch, way better than my older interfaces. I love the low latency Luna DAW, I love all of their plugins, I got rid of my 2 other plugin subscriptions because I don't need them anymore. But so far, there is nothing better in that price range imo, especially for recording 16 tracks like I'm doing. When it becomes obsolete (and there's no sign in that happening very soon, I've had mine since 2017), I'll buy something better.

I love my apollo x8p, I don't think I'll ever go to any other system. Of course this puts the clock on all the UA hardware's obsolescence