I love this thing.

I love this thing in and of itself, but if it's made unusable by bad drivers, why waste your money

In that regard, the Scarlett has been a widely recognized piece equipment but with the second gen Focusrite has improved an already good thing by reducing latency

Again, this thing is not user friendly.

I have nothing but amazing things to say about that unit

I love this thing in and of itself, but if it's made unusable by bad drivers, why waste your money

The drivers are terrible - plugging this thing into any USB port on my machine will either freeze the machine, or disable other USB devices on the same bridge (e.g. keyboard and mouse just stop working)

Interesting thing I learned from Tech Support is that you CANNOT run the 2i4 in this manner (guitar>iRig

And they could care less whether you end the call with a broken product and trying to work things with you and a Level 10 tech God they may have locked up in the back room