Skip + - work really great on the soft-buttons for me. *shrugs*

Also the earlier models do support click hold macros, just not with the flexibility of having two different macros. So you can have your remote go to the device page when you click it, or switch to the device when you hold the button down (supports real short delays too). But so far we've just been using the MAIN button hold trick to go to a device page without switching to it.

Extra devices and pages are nice if you need them of course, but the 5 extra soft buttons are much more important to me, as I try to get everything usefull on the first page.

As for the feel of the device and looks, well, I think that's just personal preference.