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To me you kinda half to have both (AT + WT or AT + Melo).
AT in manual is still king for me in terms of being able to take a vocal performance that really always was very good, and make it great. For me this is almost always a matter of making them sing for tone, telling them about the scouping and the going sharp when they belt, AT'ing. Let them hear, re-sing, re-AT etc, until they are really starting to kill it tone AND pitch wise. And then taking the final take and making some very slight corrections.
Waves tune and melodyne wont pin it on the note like AT will, and both do something to the high end that I don't like (especially for bright pop vocals). Also neither really understands scooping and dipping or give you the control to say "that isn't supposed to be a note". That said for somebody that's scoops like Bob Dylan and swears up and down they sound better singing in their shower, they will both (melo or WT) make drastic fixes better then AT will IME.
AT in auto mode running live is great for songwriters who cant sing, don't laugh some of these cats get placements.
And Waves tune in midi to pitch mode has easily made me more money, and more clients for life then any other plugin bar none. Let some rapper hit the booth with his horrible sung hook, hit that button and play something better then he ever dreamed of with his vocals on the keys and it's a done deal. And nothing like a talkbox (I have several). Talkboxes are great, but they never sound like the original vocalist and in the studio you have to deal with the whole "let me try" thing, which is gross. I'm not trying to swap spit with these guys.
That's my 2c. . .
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