The basic system is 4 mic pre's short of the DL but otherwise it's an option I may have tried years ago if I'd known about it. OTOH, Windoze and live audio…… Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm on a Windozz system that's been running for a month no reboot. Only shut down for my trips. Not something a lot of you can say about the sour fruits current state. FCA has 4 line inputs as well so keyboards and other line equipment makes it 8. Yes a midi input as well that's 9. You only use mics? Let me state it another way the DL is short 4 line inputs and has no high impedance input.
Yes, I only use mics or DIs, the only time I use the jack inputs is for a laptop local to the desk, and I'll use DIs for that if it's more than a 1.5M lead away.
In the UK the hardware cost is probably slightly higher than the DL and, as the DL does it's own processing of the audio you would need a laptop or local Windows tablet to run the audio processing, that would bring the total up to X32 rack territory.
If your local PC crashes (not uncommon IME) you lose audio unlike the DL/X32 rack based system. I'd always prefer to use a dedicated device over a general purpose computer for mission critical stuff.
My various fruit has been free from blemish so far.