i've noticed Trans is actually starting to get a critical rewrite recently. A lot of people finally coming out and saying it's actually not that bad. The whole reason he made the album was because his son, who has cerebal pulsay responded better to the vocoder, which I think is pretty cool.
Anyways, I only listened to it only once a while back and I remember actually quite liking it. I would much rather listen to it than something from around Silver and Gold/Are You Passionate era.
Also, it's much better to see an ageing artist try something different and new, even if they don't pull it off, rather than just throw out albums of the same, safe, genre over and over again for 40 years like someone like The Stones have.
