[hoilogoi]

Cellist-Organist-luthier here. Don't be silly. Imagine arguing against the merits of the organ by saying "It gives up the expressiveness of the Oboe/Flute with no tangible benefit beyond being able to play more notes at once." Keyboard music is meaningful in different way. What it loses in the articulation of individual voices, it gains back in the interaction of multiple tones and voices, for lack of a better way to say it.

This critique is using a 1820+ vocabulary for what I would call a "Baroque" instrument. "The right way to evoke feeling is by using expressive articulation on an expressive, lyrical melody line (among other differences)." It perfectly befits a Baroque keyboard instrument to work better with ornamentation and polyphony.

As a side note, I think the tone could gain a lot from gut strings. I don't think period strings work as well with steel.