Smooth sounding distortion seems to be the relm of old hardware only and is the one thing Im missing.
The rest seems to be taken care of one way or another with patience between synths and plugins...
As for the hardware route - thers alot of good useable hardware processors around that dont cost alot - the killer comes when one day you cant deal with the chaos any more and need patch bays, so you tot up all your ins and sends order and few patch bays then realise you have do a shot gun job on several large high street banks to pay for all the extra cables you need
