Totally agree with you, but as you said depends on what you're doing and also I believe on what's your kind of playing (or your perspective to do it).
I play a lot with high/low notes, the 'middle' which the common one makes me feel 'reduced' and therefore more keys means much more liberty in my opinion. Feel I can do a lot more with the whole picture of it than when you're limited.

For example, not so long ago, trying out the Cinematic Strings I wrote few seconds of music. Fine. Then for space reasons I had to delete it and replaced it for some Kirk Hunter library (orchestral as well, in case you don't know it) and it could play exactly the same, except for one single note, a high one, and the single note that made a huge difference so I almost delete what I wrote because I didn't want to do it in other way, that way was perfect.
It's not the same, in this case it was about the instrument limitation, not always the keys (all of them) are assigned for the whole keyboard, but in a way it's related to what I meant above.

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