Thanks for sharing your story.
I think that any new "Amiga" is much more appealing with a Catweasel card to read Amiga floppy disks. I have a Catweasel in both of my Umithlon machines and 1 in the FeeCee I run UAE on as well. My wife and I have thousands of 3 1/2" disks (I was AmigaAtlanta PD librarian for 10 years) and its neato-cool to still be able to use them just like we did last century.
The drive even sounds the same!
The CatWeasel is awesome hardware and every time I add another emulated Amiga: I buy another CatWeasel to make it much more like a Commodore Amiga.