Well, Larry, I finally caved and bought the loyalty bundle. It was a
really good deal for $209, although I'd just about convinced myself I didn't need it. I had no trouble convincing myself I couldn't afford it.
It was far from a "no brainer". As a practical matter, I like to keep my brain engaged at all times, regardless of the enticement. And my brain had to do some serious juggling of competing arguments for this one.
Ozone 4 has been doing a great job for years, and I didn't need the other goodies. For those projects for which Ozone is a little too polite, or when I need a limiter on an individual track, I've got Pro-L. MDynamicEQ is a better plugin than Ozone's (or Alloy's) multi-band compressor. Ozone 3's exciter is still my favorite for moderate dirtiness, D16's Redopter and Devastor are there for more extreme distortion, and Saturn handles the subtle distortion/saturation duties. Pro-Q beats all the EQs in all the iZotope products for ease-of-use. The list goes on...in short, this bundle is not going to let me do anything I couldn't already do, or even make anything more convenient.
It wasn't the vintage tape module that tipped the balance - I went digital in the first place to avoid tape's limitations! To my surprise, it was watching some videos on Trash that nudged me into clicking the Buy button. I had tried version 1 and wasn't impressed, but I saw creative potential in Trash 2. Sure, Saturn's modulation options are far more sophisticated, but Trash's modulation is much easier to use.