I'd have to say that the PS5 had quite a bit to due with the Tascam forum's demise, what with the product manager pulling a Howard Dean and going on a rant about how glad he was that some owners felt screwed after not reading the fine print, and even advocating physical violence at one point! (No wonder he got canned from Tascam AND Line 6)
And don't worry about passing on those links - I'm on those boards, but was hoping to hook up with the small group of free thinkers who were banished by Mike.
There's a thriving community of hackers that provide enhancements for Zoom recorders, and the PS5 could use some button-saving utilities of it's own (not to mention an audio import/export capability).
As you've mentioned, the PS5 is a toy as a recorder, but is very handy for working solo acts and duos. Too bad a small band of guys who get off on posting copyrighted material to Soundclick overshadow the potential of this box.