Is FL better than Reason/Sonar/Cubase/[insert name of other popular software package here]?
No. And more breath/typing time has been wasted over this and similiar un-answerable questions than should ever be wasted on anything! Different software has different strengths and weakness, and some software may indeed be more feature rich than other software. But in the end, it depends on the producer. Even lower end software will provide you with enough tools for endless creativity. I personally use FL for a very arbitrary reason. I saw someone else (a brother, incidentally) playing with it, before I even knew what a sequencer (or an mp3, for that matter) was. That was nearly 5 years ago, I think. It’s simply what I started with, and it provides everything I need – so I have very little incentive to tackle the learning curve of another program.