I've noticed the gear I gravitate towards is cyclical. I might not touch something for a few months and then be all about it for weeks. So I try to have a little from all the food groups. But I'm definitely not a collector. I like to have a good amount of crayons in the box but I don't need two...
Thanks for the heads up. These are my everyday driver brand and gauge and I never see them in the stupid deal. I got the DR deal and had to slog through them.
If the demands for it were high enough and the complaints were high enough that it was negatively effecting sales, I'm sure he'd do something. IDK, it's so niche, the demand just isn't there. You can buy another footswitch for 20 bucks and it would have a vast majority of Wizard owners covered...
If you see it from Rick's perspective, he's in the business of making amps. He's not a footswitch maker. A larger operation like Mesa and Marshall can supply footswitches. They have teams just doing that.
Fwiw, Wizards do come with a single function footswitch. Most people probably don't need...
I just found a guy that builds working, 4 button footswitches for Wizards. They're heavy duty and work perfectly. If you want the LEDs to work, you need a separate power supply, but even without LEDs, the buttons make all the functions work.
Here's where you can find them. Pretty reasonably...
Load box near the amp is totally fine. I have 2 different brands of load boxes sitting on top of amps. No noise.
I think your problem comes from the guitar pickups being too close to the load box itself. If I put my pickups very close to the load box at volume, big squeal.
I had a Hermida Zendrive back in the day and don't know why I sold it. It was actually a pretty awesome drive. Probably not a popular RT drive, but it was useful for more than just khaki blooz.