Studio design on the installment plan - your path

First thread from me and I'm going big picture. 
 
How much different would your set-up be if you could pick your equipment from scratch today, as opposed to accumulating it over time?

Looking around, I see a few clues to my room's evolution over the years, an ADAT XT - symbol of the '90s, a 2408 - the dawn of a new era, some useful dbx and Lexicon stuff going back further. 
Since I'm a hybrid guy, I use most all of it (well, not the ADAT) but I wonder how different my workflow would be if I hadn't built the room slowly over 20 years?
I've sold off two consoles in that span so there has been renovation, but always with an eye to maximizing the value of what I currently owned, never a baby and bathwater approach.
That's been a trend the last couple years as busy pros move to a recall is king work flow. I haven't really been pressured to follow that model, but I do wonder what it would look like if I woke up one day and all my tried and trues were gone. Certainly, I'd reconsider some purchases that were dismissed because I already had something covering that ground, but I wonder how much different the end result would be picking each piece to create a workflow from scratch?