One of the limitations of guitar synthesis is that you necessarily lose some of the subtleties that can be wrung out of the pick-attack, especially with overdrive in the signal path.

It has taken me until just now to realise you can split the signal, apply a slow attack to the synthesised portion, and combine them. I'm both delighted at the realisation, in a way that my bank-account isn't, and exasperated at how long it's taken me to catch on.

I also find myself objecting less to the idea of how far you have to modify your playing to suit the synth, than previously. Apparently I'm becoming less stubborn and fixed in my ways as I age, which is not what I'd been led to believe is the normal order of things.