moving up from a simple mechanical machine to a Janome memorycraft 9000 in the late 90's I was thrilled iwth the idea of all those stitches, I think it had +200. Based on watching Nancy Zieman make such pretty stitching on her blouses and suit lapels.
For my first project I pressed and starched a sheet top, set up the machine and let'er rip. By the end of the first minute I was bored out of my mind. Never tried a big project again, and only use about 10 or less stitches on any machine since.
As mentioned above, in my research for a new machine (my old one is fried) I tried to get the modern iimprovements without any of the stitch extravaganza. Zero luck. IF I wanted must haves I had to take all the stitches. crazy.