Thinking back I am not really sure why I felt it was reasonable to spend so much on a toy and I certainly wouldn't say that it has paid for itself in any way. My husband often jokes that the machine was the cheap part. But I have really enjoyed my embroidery machine and the software that I got with it.
If it met some disaster tomorrow, I would be back out shopping for another one without hesitation.
I have a second machine that I keep beside it and I often sew while an embroidery is running. Some stitch outs can take an entire afternoon to finish. Maybe if I was doing it again I would buy a separate embroidery machine as it would have cost less than my 2 machines.