I hear ya. I have only a few hardware pieces. I got the Babyface Pro, and I use the Behringer 8 Channel ADAT - Other than that, it's all plugins.
I got the subscription to the Spark program which has a lot of Channel Strips, but I haven't tried them very much. The ones I have tried have too many knobs in one place, for me a recipe for disaster! When I first got the subscription, I used the 1176 compressors a lot, but I have moved to the LA-3A which currently I like. Perhaps in a few months I'll do the same thing and remove all the LA-3As and move to something else.