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I <3 Turntable. Maybe I'll make that a t-shirt or something. Still, I believe that in certain decks (which means usually non-Noise) Turntable is a superbly solid option. I'll state my case here, but take it with a grain of salt, I am biased.
Let's check the best case scenarios: Turntabling Astros / Atlas / Nisei / House of Knives / generic 5/3 agenda against something you cannot use. This will sometimes win you the game directly, but at least it will disturb the Corps boardstate tremendously.
Worst case scenario: you do not have the benefits of Grimoire. Now, if you do not need the extra MU or do not play sufficiently many viruses to justify that console, that is not a real drawback. In that cases, Turntable is an expensive Mem Chip.
Turntable allows you to sit down and relax when the Corp IAAs in the early game. Let him score the 5/3 and invest a hell lot of time and money into it, just so that you once you find an agenda elsewhere can turntable it away for profit. No pressure there. Instead, you can use the two turns the Corp invests to score in order to create scoring opportunities elsewhere.
Look at NEH. In app. 80% of the cases, they score Astro as their first agenda, as that is their game plan. You'll never be so happy to steal NAPDs ever, as when you trade them for Astros with tokens.
Similar thing is valid for RP: They want to score the early Nisei and then chain it. Also they need two turns to score it, and if you figure you can't get into that remote, build up for a pressure turn, find something else and Turntable the Nisei away (or alternatively force the Corp to use the Nisei token for something else than protecting the remote).
Weyland often plays a 1/2/3 point agenda mix. Hostiles for easy money and Archer fodder, 5/3 in order to not play too many agendas. That allows for point swaps compared with the utility swaps mentioned above. Just yesterday
I was facing Blue Sun with 5 points scored and an Oaktown Renovation in an inpenetrable remote. Luckily, an Indexing found another Oaktown that I stole and swapped with the 5/3. Matchpoint denial! At the end I won.
What Turntable does from an overall perspective, is that it can turn around sure loss positions into games with either a fighting chance or even wins. It creates variance compared with Grimoire, that is adding a safe, but only small benefit.
I am never sad when Turntable did nothing in a particular game (sometimes I don't even bother installing it), because I know of how many games it has won me and will win me from subpar positions.
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