I don’t know.
I think it’s because you have more buttons on the compact and it is cheaper.
The extender may be a good choice to.
Note that sending meters level and things like this to the Midi controller will not be on the top of our to do list… 😅
In reality, I don’t like Behringer for many reasons, the weight is one of them…
But I needed motorized fader.
Now with the new reachtoModify functionality in Logelloop, you can go without motors…