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Well, active people on MR and here are the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction of guitarists in the world, it's hardly representative. If it was needed by enough people to make it worthwhile, they'd make it.
If people didn't go back to pedals, they wouldn't be able to shout out about their OD being the best in the universe and all others suck the next time someone asks for advice on OD pedals. And probably something to do with it being much easier to turn a knob than edit a patch.
One person would be a demand', but anecdotal from a forum is hardly enough to justify the cost in development. What do you think would be a reasonable demand to justify a big company researching and producing a multi-effect to suit your requirements?
The planet that thinks that's not what I said.
As you've pointed out, it would probably not be a big thing for them to do, so why havn't they done it the way you think they should? It's likely either available in higher price units, or there isn't enough demand to justify it.
I think I'm missing something... you can switch patches with the G3. You hold down the left footswitch and cycle with the other two. It's not ideal if you want to switch them mid-song, but if you use one patch per song it's pretty reasonable.
The only other way around it would be to have 50 footswitches, each having a dedicated function. I think that's why not every multi-fx is everyone's moon on a stick.
I'm not saying that what you want is unreasonable at all, and I suspect you're correct that implementing it wouldn't be difficult for the manufacturers, but I am doubtful that the demand (compared to that for multis as they currently exist) is high enough for them to do it.
When I've used multis before, I've switched between patches rather than wanting to turn effect blocks on and off inside them - if I wanted with and without phaser I'd either make two patches, or use a control pedal to turn that one block on and off. Having a footswitch for each block isn't how I've used multis at all.
Plus if you make this an additional switching mode it only adds to the operational complexity for a lot of people.