Sascha Franck said:
"Well, as far as factory presets go, I had an opportunity to check out a whole bunch of Axe FX III factory patches a while ago. And compared to what's coming with the Helix, for me it's night and day."
AxeFX III is also roughly twice the price. I've been a Boss/Roland user for years ( GT 10, 100, GR55), and while it was a little bit of a learning curve switching to the Helix LT, the one thing I found was that while that presets were not necessarily great out of the box, they were good starting points and I have found it much easier to dial in a tone I like rather quickly. I still miss some of the Boss effects, but have been happy with the Helix offerings, and much prefer the HX editor and UI over the Boss offerings. Point is you get out of a MFX unit what you put into it, whether it's money or time or both.