I many times used Ableton ... tbh it's not less complicated then Ardour.
You can use yabridge for Win vsts ... works quite good for the most plugins IMHO but on kx.studio you find a hell lot of Linux native plugins ... don't look as fancy as commercial ones but they do what they should do.
Music production in Linux is often a bit more hackyhack but it's ok so far.
At least this are all tools ... using them is the real art behind that.
