you hit it right. I saw a house 2 years ago that uses 100% ribbons and to me, the only place it looked good was the window frames. That made me go with nodes and ccb's which I was very happy with. Yes, expensive. this year I sank 6k on led and rgb's and controllers. I dont have a lot of hobbies and since the wife gets her shit, I figured why not spend some on my shit. I really tried to wrap my head around the san and e1.31, but I must be too stupid to get it. I finally said fuck it and just bought the mainstream stuff. 

I never knew how much my sequencing sucked till rgb. There is just so many options controlling every bulb/node that it gets super time consuming. next year I am going to really focus on that and not so much on my hardware as I think I am about set....famous last words. oops, didnt last long, I want strobes next year!!!