Totally worth it.
I use them every day, love them for what they bring to the table in terms of clarity and pureness.
Respectful to the source material.
Only EQ plug that is on-par is the UAD Massive Passive.
Only compressors that are on-par is the UAD 33609+new1176 bundle and perhaps the softube CL-1b/TL-100a.
All Waves compressors sound artificial and phasey/weak to me and degrades the original signal.
…and ALL plug-in compressors are not detailed enough w/ fast attack settings, best are the elysia mpressor and the new UAD 1176. (the 5043 is not designed to be a fast compressor)
That’s my biased and subjective opinion… 