True, because Max comes with bandlimited oscillators and envelope generators ready to go. In Pd you need to build them yourself or import libraries.

> and is more fully featured out of the box

True. See above. A lot of things you'd make from scratch in Pd come in the standard namespace of Max.

That said, there's nothing you can do in Max that you couldn't do in Pd is you're a decent DSP coder, and that low-level entry point is half the fun IMHO. Don't forget they were originally the same codebase. MSP is Miller's initials (For those who don't know Miller Puckette named it Max as homage to Max Matthews).