Usually I choose profiles with a little higher gain and then reduce its gain manually a little bit. I feel like this sounds better in many of my personal musical situations. But this again only works because the Profiler gets to know all those previous gain stages up to the desired profile gain state in the profiling process. The other way round does not work properly (putting more gain to a cleaner profile) for the same reason.
I don't like having one million profiles to choose from with most of them being the same amp. So the way how I use profiles made me think of this: For a better workflow... what if the Profiler (or the next generation!) would be programmed to really react like an amp according to its gain AND its EQ knobs? This means: put all those gain stages (=profiles) into one adjustable profile. Technology and Computercode should be already there, even with the current generation. This should be easily doable (?) in my understanding. Yes, the profiling process maybe could take more time (?) but that should be not the problem.
Next stage: a new Kemper with two dsps could easily blend two of these one-profile-oneamp-amps into a double amp setup.
This would make life a lot easier than it already is with the Kemper and maybe would leave a lot more space for patches instead of having it blocked by profiles.