Are Universal Audio Apollo interfaces still worth it?

Much of the praise of Apollo interfaces is that they come with the UAD plugins, which as I understand were previously basically only available with the interfaces. But now UAD has been releasing a lot of these plugins as standalone native versions, not requiring the interface. They're selling them for cheap, too. I personally don't really care about using the plugins WHILE I record, in monitoring... I'll just add compression and reverb later, and it's more flexible that way. Does this mean another interface is now a better choice, or is the Apollo's build quality and sound quality for the price the best, regardless of the plugins?

(For reference, I'm probably looking at the Twin... something with two inputs for around $1k. I'm trying to upgrade from my Apogee One which has connectivity issues, frequent hum, and general build quality issues.)