I would add, that if your not willing to spend at least 1 year with VCV rack, then you should not purchase anything in real life.
If you don't enjoy VCV rack, then you wont enjoy the real life version.
VCV rack is the way in.
-- Shadowsaun
For whatever it's worth, I hate working with VCV rack, but spend at least two to four hours a day on my modular. A lot of people gravitate to modular specifically because they're tiresd of computers.