yeah I get that, I feel the same way about some things, and especially touch screens and needing to plug into my laptop to edit... But if you get something where the UI is good and simple enough it becomes a tool to let you do things that are either really hard or expensive to do with analogue pedals then who cares what tool is used, if it sounds good enough, it is good enough....
What I find more strange is that this will be the flavour of the month for a while and feature on 50% of the "post your pedalboard" threads on here and talk bass but in a years time be replaced by something new... it's the unsettling changing that somewhere I don't understand