I've invested in a Dawless setup, I have a groove machine + analog bass synth + a mixer (mpc or something like an octatrakt) to orchestrate and apply fx. It avoids the tedium and allows for a level of electronic music improvisation that reawakened my love of the craft.

It allows you to hit that flowstate that you can hit playing a bonafide instrument. The sound quality is good enough, the arrangements arent that hard,its house and techno anyway, and allows me to get away from the tedium of engineering, that as I get older, wears on my patience.