Another former Ableton user who moved to Bitwig after moving to 100% Linux.
The pricing of the various tiers is similar to the price of the Ableton equivalents but the upgrades are generally more expensive, however the upgrade process is different so most users find the value for money to be around the same







Another option for using vsts is to run the Windows version of reaper in wine and load in your vsts the same way.
The windows version of reaper was built with full wine compatibility in mind so doing it this way might provide less resistance than trying to get things working with yabridge