Reminder that unless you're a boomer wanting to live out his rockstar fantasies playing shitty bar gigs, there's absolutely no reason to buy any guitar hardware.
Literally everything an amp does can be replicated with a few stock audio effects if your goal is just to actually create music.

They'll seethe and call you a poorfag for producing your own original music while they're covering La Grange for the 800th time in front of a few neighborhood drunks.