Mackie 402VLZ4 | High-Performance VLZ4 Series Phantom Powered 4-Channel Analog Mixing Station, 402VLZ4 with 2 Onyx Mic Preamps and 1 Stereo Channel (4-Channel)

I cannot understand why, even on their tiniest mixers like this a Mix 5, they still waste space on Tape In/Out ports that NOBODY has used for almost 30 years. Sure some people need them; let them buy a mixer of literally any substantial size, like 14 channel or higher.Meanwhile, Bluetooth should be considered minimal nowadays.More importantly to me would be to have Channel Outs, so you can feed your instrument inputs directly to a sound man while you reserve the Main bus for combining with a stage monitor feed. This would be 100x more useful.