The primary issue seems to be lag, and an unwillingness to connect things in the optimal way. It seems kind of bizarre for someone wanting to learn a musical instrument to be so against plugging things in a certain way to get the best sound/experience. It's pretty common to rearrange stomp boxes to see if connecting them in different orders gives a different tone or less noise, for example.
If you don't have the ability to run cables properly then yeah, it seems like something you should skip. I'm one of those "probably rare" types that have my sound going direct to my sound receiver and HDMI going to my TV. I picked up Rocksmith yesterday and I'm really happy with it. I got it to make guitar practice time more fun, not to get a cool new rhythm game, though.
For $80 I have scrolling tabs, pretty good amp/effect modelling set up per song, and licensed background tracks perfectly synced to the tab. I'm quite happy with it so far.
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