Thanks for the heads up on the Neural QC - I hadn’t seen that before. The Dwarf should absolutely blow it away in terms of value for money, but there is the question of whether the Dwarf will eventually start to support IR modelling (see Is there a plugin that would read IRs? and Cabinet Emulation (Impulse Responses) plugin on roadmap?)
I also just started a new thread regarding stealing some of the hardware design ideas from the QC: Neural QC: foot switches doubling as knobs, and touchscreen.