I believe things have changed Joe from that point of view.
First class midi keyboard owners,second class synthesizer owners and third class arranger keyboard owners
I 've read somewhere Gary saying that sometimes people are spending countless hours for creating sounds that are almost as good as Yamaha's.
Thinking about it, I will say that it's been more than 30+ years since the last time I've heard a real NEW sound from a synthesizer or whatever machine or computers or anything else.
And yet they still consider to be more "pro" instruments than an arranger keyboard.
A rhetorical question from a non musician (I am not looking for an answer of course
):
"Why exactly?"