About a year ago I joined a club that has a modular layout we bring to different events throughout the year, and at every event I've brought a LC+ engine with me because they are great engines and are so darn simple to use - and they give me "mobility" (I'm not stuck standing at the transformer).
A couple of us now even hand the remote over to kids (big and small) who come to visit the layout and let them run the train, which would probably rarely happen with a TMCC/Legacy/DCS controller.
From a technical side, I can tell you that my LC+ RS-3 is much more detailed and feature-rich than the LionChief RS-3 that is bundled with the sets.
Do LC+ engines have as many details/features as the Legacy/MTH-Premier type of engines? Probably not: but that's OK for me, I'm quite confident that my LC+ engines have brought tons of joy to me, my kids, and the folks at shows who have never run a train (or haven't run one in decades), so that's all that matters to me.
