While I don't disagree with anything you say, I
think you miss the point.
People come into the studio with PT sessions from other places. They want to
be able to continue to run them. Even if the hardware isn't that good (and
PTLE hardware isn't, but it isn't that bad either) it's good enough to run
their session. If nothing else, it's nice to be able to run old stuff even
when I've moved on to new systems.
you don't need PT h/w to run a PT session.
I'd be willing to dedicate a slot in one of my
machine somewhere to keep
this capability in the background after you manage to get Ardour in my
foreground. ;-)
i will be suprised if you can ever run PT under wine, though its by no
means theoretically impossible.
--p