If nothing else, Mike is a "classic".
Personally, I would not want to do without PC at this stage. I've become fairly dependent on them as the first (and often only) chisels I need to use. Their edges vary slightly, but they're all fairly sharp. Besides, if a chisel is dull would a carpenter sharpen it or simply get a new one? Hmmm...
PS: If the signal processing doesn't matter, then the DAW world never needed UAD, Fab Filter, Waves, etc, and could have stuck with included plugins all along... right?