Although FL comes with some great plugins like Harmor. But that's a subjective con to people who are poor or on a budget.

I understand that it has nothing to do with the daw and it's all about the user. But after witnessing all the great new versions of daws recently being released like Reason 8, Cubase 7 and Logic pro X, I finally understood why FL is frowned upon and gets so much hate. Now don't get me wrong, I have used nothing but FL for 4 years I was a fanboy. If it wasn't for that I would have switched to reason a long ass time ago. Ableton and Reason have the worst in my opinion but again subjective. The only thing that keeps me sticking with FL is the piano roll/step sequencer and nothing more. The thing I hate most about FL is the childish GUI and awkward layout which is why I hate it. It's like FL is just a coloring book that doesn't come with crayons, you have to buy them all yourself, so how are you supposed to make anything decent with samples and presets and synth engines that are so weak? That's right, stripped to bare bones FL is shit.

and if that wasn't bad enough you literally only get a few plugins even buying the signature bundle only give you maximus and sytrus, yeah they are pre loaded but you have to buy them in order to actually use them so Harmor/Poizon/Harmless all useless.

And the stock samples I.e drums/loops/one shots are just the worst I've ever heard. They just aren't that powerful in my opinion. I mean yeah Poizon, 3x osc, and sytrus are good, but then you have flops like wasp, harmless and autogun. Well that's the only Plugin it comes with that's worth noting.

Stock plugins fl studio