I hear ya, 99% of the time, I bring up Vital as my workhorse. I definitely like grabbing some presets though for cool layers from whatever synths.

About Analog Lab, I have it but don’t use it. Really useful for piano players who need lots of sounds and are not interested in learning how to program synths however. Also powerful for synthwave artists who are in need of vintage sounds.

About Pigments and Phase Plant, they are for different users:

Pigments: you release a lot of songs but you don’t know how to program and just use presets;
Phase Plant: you like autistic sound design and overprogrammed sounds, with 345 effects and no spontaneity, and you never finish tracks.

Just kidding.

They’re both good and powerful irrespectively of one’s preferences. You can use presets with Phase Plant or program some unnecessarily complicated patch in Pigments. It all boils down to what works for you really. I prefer simple patches so the workflow in Phase Plant is not really attractive to me, too much stuff and control I really don’t need. Pigments is (relatively) more restrictive in a good way, I get stuff I like done quicker (I don’t use presets, don’t need them). I’ve come to a point where I prefer to impose limitations on myself while creating, and Phase Plant is too open ended for my taste. Less is more.

Obviously other people glorify the “sound design youtubers” approach, in that case Pigments is still very powerful but has less features and this makes Phase Plant a more viable option (more layers, more effects, more busses and routing, more control over specific aspects of the oscillator section). To each his own