I play a relatively low output HSS fender strat via a UA dream 65 set on clean with the purpose of getting everything only from my pedals.
I wanted 3-4 distinct sounds out of my board wrt drive/distortion, from light overdrive to 80s style distortion, without having to own several guitars or a dirtier amp.
I tried so many indiividual pedals, at one point I had 4 overdrive/distortion pedals on the board.
While I was ok with my overdrive sounds, even though I had to have 2 separate pedals for that, I could never achieve good distortion at all in my setup.
As I still own all those previous pedals, I compared them all with the Riverside to see if it can replace all of them at once. It totally could, plus it gave me the great distortion sounds and even more of it than I needed.
So I managed to downsize my board massively as well, which was nice!
I am extremely happy with it and once again completely amazed by strymon.
What will definitely come handy though is the switch to recall presets, in order to switch between those sounds quickly.