1. It has real knobs to control the channel strip
2. The channel strip is an SSL 4000 console
3. They have other consoles available (for a price of course)
If none of the above are desired by you, then there is no advantage.
Just watched the vid from AES.
If I was in the market for a controller (and didn't own the FP16 already) I would be stoked to get this.
But for now I can live with my FP16 and my Console 1.