You certainly need tunnel-vision glasses in order not to see benefits for both.
For example, when I dive into the list of suggestions, I see that the majority are focusing on instrument-related features.
Some features are clearly dealing with the internal sampler, while others would represent a benefit for both plugins and the sampler.
I personally think that having a healthy mix of both, with some unexpected stuff on top is the way to go.
Let’s hope that a lot of those suggestions made it into Redux then 