The English is the most flexible, since you're less limited in key, you can play the most complex chords, and you can change one or two notes while still holding others.

Thanks for that - the last of these, in particular, is exactly the style of playing I'm intending to teach myself, i.e. chords with a bit of ornamentation.

It's the suck/blow thing that really baffles me about Anglos (among others) - I can't imagine not knowing where each note was all the time.