Thanks for the answer!

I’m mostly interested in generative music right now and I haven’t made music for a while (not that I ever made music, I’m the kind of person that gets into a lot of stuff all the time, then drops it, then get into it again and so on).

I was curious about trying some plugins but at the same time, not being that invested, I don’t want to spend money or have to learn other tools other than Pd (which I’m really enjoying, even the more tedious “spend half an hour trying to understand how to do this basic thing” side of it).

The answer will probably be “it depends”, but I wonder what most people use Pd for and what they rely on plugins for