I don't think that they could make a less interesting drum machine, for me, but, surely this is not the intended target audience, no? I'm pretty sure that this is targeting the new breed of live PAs and other budget bedroom artists that would just be annoyed at having to use up more than one input on their mixer, if they even have a mixer.
This only has one output too, they were way popular back in the day. (Ok, I take that back, if someone rereleased this, that would be a less interesting drum machine)