In some rooms, I could see that working visually; in others, not so much.
OTOH, while I am not blind, I am very indecisive and inconsistent about these things. Fortunately, that doesn’t matter because I have never bought a turntable for how it looks, so liking this thing’s look one day and hating it the next would not matter much.
Mind you, if multiple good listeners reported that this thing worked better than (say) a top spec LP12, a Naia or the top-spec Vertere for less than (say) £10k, I’d be interested.
I’m not so sure. A few people have downsized to a Nova, I guess because it was Naim’s highest level one-box integrated. Those people might well have chosen the PE had that been available (and assuming its sound matches its price tag)
