I don't really listen to music much, except for when I'm driving or when going out for a run. Music at home is not really my thing or my wife's. The few times we have listened to music at home, I've just had the Amazon Echo play a few tunes (maybe 6 times in the 2 years I've owned the Amazon Echo). I know it's not the biggest sound to fill a room, but I'm not an audiophile or anything close to it. The wife just really wants music to be played from the speakers already installed throughout the house whenever we have company over for a get together. I don't see myself spending too much money for this feature alone and the few times that it will happen.
We don't really have anything else that I need (or want) to be controlled with this I think.
If I have to buy a new controller I will most definitely not be going this route and figure out another way to play music. If I would have another use for this system, I would possibly think about it, but the fact that once you buy something (even though, I did not purchase and just inherited it) you still need someone else to make any changes is a big turnoff.
My thought, which may be incorrect, was that if it was up an running before I moved in (not sure if it ever was), can't I just plug the system back in and things be working again? Or does a dealer need to still do something to your system in order for it to work?