I think it would be useful to step back and get a little perspective.
During the time that Kemper didn't have a foot controller of it's own, they worked very closely with Gordius, Liquid Foot, the Uno Chip people, RJM Mastermind, and others to provide support/technical help to help best integrate the various 3rd party controllers in a musician friendly way.
They didn't have to do this. Heck, that cost them money that could have been spent on other features (of course it helped extend the market penetration....that's why they did it, no doubt - they are in business after all). They were interested in providing the best experience for the performing guitarist.
It would be easy to make a case that to some extent, they were undercutting the eventual market for their own product.
Now, for some reason (economics certainly being a factor), some of the very people they sought to help are ranting against them for not providing looper support for products that aren't even theirs. Wow. Really?
I wonder how much the company has spent on support dollars (Euros) to troubleshoot control and connection issues for other company's controllers up to this point. It would have been really easy to say: "I'm sorry, but that's not our product, we don't support it".
When I was at NAMM last year, I spoke with Christoph about a variety of Profiler related subjects and, of course, the Remote came up. I saw a rendering of what his vision of the final product would be, and it ended up being pretty much what I saw then.
I asked about the price, and he mentioned that the design goal was $600US. He further indicated that others in the company thought that was too little to charge, and that the company wouldn't make enough money on it at that price. He said he didn't care, because it was his company, after all (and the bottom line profits - or lack thereof - are certainly his), and that he felt that more would be too much for the average musician.
I wish that more of the people on this forum had the opportunity to meet CK. I don't believe that the vitriol would be flowing quite the way it is after having met, and spoken with the man.
At this point, I'm just glad that he took time away from a very well respected brand - Virus Synths - to pursue the Kemper goal. I have had mine for several years now; and even though I loved it right away, the darned thing just keeps getting more useful/capable by the month.
Let the flaming begin...