>so I get the worst of both worlds, sterile synthetic sound
>and technical incompetence.

Those electronic kits are really dope. You can get to keep the nuances and still have MIDI. Way quieter too. If I was buying a set I'd defnitely go electronic. The drums I have are my cousin's old set from the 1980s. Sparkly blue.

Still gotta learn how to play tho. I can hold a basic beat and that's it. Any type of accent or fill and it's trainwreck time, lol.