Gigging.
When a bunch of people are leaping around enjoying your music. How often do get to experience actively giving people joy as directly in that way?
One if the best feelings there is.
First gig for the covers band last night, as a private party for one guitarist's birthday/friends of the band. Bonkers audience all waving their phone torches for 'with or without you' much fun but sometimes felt like chaos on stage. Really fun friendly night and some nice appreciation from audience.
"About Time", which may just have been a comment on making a decision seems to have some traction.
It came from the drummer so it may be a reflection on our ability to keep time, which is more challenging when you have four people who aren't drummers or bass players.
Bearing in mind my comment above, perhaps the future is relatively inexpensive, easily replaced class D power bricks, and separate preamps that are a cross between a DI box and the front end of an amp.
Probably both got the same Class Dpower stage. Which is irrelevant as all class D power stages are more or less identical (transparent) and it's all in the choice of preamp.