rwandering

You should request it if you want it. I understand from @Digital_Igloo posting on TGP that it wasn't included because very few people used it in the Helix. I don't know if he was definitive they wouldn't do it, but that there were higher-priority features given that fact. Unlike his position on a couple of other things where he sounded pretty definitive (e.g., a rack unit b/c they sold so few of them). Of course, developing a new hardware SKU is a bigger commitment than hands-free editing, but it still is a development effort that would also increases dev maintenance and QA indefinitely.

When it comes to tightening pedals, one thing I've learned is that if you overtighten the outside screw, the force of moving the pedal can end up loosening the inside screws. This is the case for the Dunlop X pedals (mini and normal size); I don't know about the L6 EX2. My solution was to use Loctite on the inside screws and then having lighter tension on the outside screw.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say we'll see this in 2027. With the proven success of the HX, and an undeniably more solid core feature set today in Stadium then you would have had in 2016 with Helix . . . I just don't think they'll wait that long.

Yes. Noting that you can change cabinet models with MIDI (as I do). I don't see why/how. The D10 itself doesn't make this any easier (noting we don't really know how routing on it will work for its digital outputs). You want cab modelling somewhere. Considering you said you want to model in the PC212, You have several options: run XLR outs from the PC; or, Mic the PC; or, Add additional cab modelling on a different path in the Stadium and route that through an output to FOH. For performance, I kind of gave up on modeling in the PC and do it all in-Stadium. So out of the PC or out of the Stadium to FOH shouldn't matter.

Mine is pretty damn stable. Gigged with it several times.

Yes, I have done this successfully.

I believe Eric Klein to have been pretty open about it: they discontinued IdeaScale because it was a public feedback system used by Line 6 competitors for market intelligence.

I agree; form factor clearly matters here too.

They have been fairly open that the AES/EBU connection -- and specifically, the support for the original PC and Variax -- are a cost they didn't want to add to every Stadium for the small fraction of users who want it.

I know that a lot of people had this issue when using the early firmware. Once you get updated to the latest, I don't think you'll ever have this issue again.

I do believe the Line 6 Updater is where you want to go next, yes. I know people have used it though I personally never have.

I never use Line 6 Central.

Just in case you made the mistake I did (of not reading the manual): but I bought/tried a USB-C ethernet adapter, but it has to be a USB-A one. I got one of those and it worked perfectly.

I missed something here: why do you want to plug an amp or preamp into the instrument jack on your Deluxe Reverb? If you want the great new modeling from the Stadium, you need a different sound reinforcement system than your current amp.

The Stadium has the exact same effects in it as the HX Effects does, and your use is really for "just effects". No amps, no cabs, right? I understand the Stadium to sound better (due to overall improvements), but I wouldn't expect the Stadium to move the needle for you. Sounds like it doesn't fit your use case.