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Yes of course.
My feeling is that hardware stuff tends to be less computer dependent (obviously) and also have longer lifecycle ... all give them a chance to be more future proof.
On the soft plug-in side, you are OS dependent and newer version often cost money (different to the Access Virus OS update policy). Soft synth are also suffering from a non dedicated hardware platform (i.e. computer) so the same computation power cannot be used at its best.

On the other side there is not really anything left that can compete with a computer when you look at sampling or sequencing.

So you are right, the best is to combine both world ...