Many URC models old and new have the repeaters and hard plus soft buttons. The MX-880 and MX-980 have color screens. The 980 is by far more programmable and has a ton more features and a ton more memory. It's the one I use and the one I'd recommend, even if the hard key layout could use some improvement.

At this time there is no remote on the market for which I couldn't offer a number of suggestions for improvement.

The URC stuff is most definitely not easy to set up. The software is quite powerful, but it has a learning curve. I'm sure you'll be able to figure it out, it's not that difficult, but to really maximize the setup you do have to be creative in your thought process, since you'll be manually setting up a lot of what Harmony does automatically (tracking device on/off states, etc.. Setting variables, etc..)