Live 10 coming in 2018.

Upgrade price is sticker shock.  Over $200.  Sonar 4 Life $199 when it was offered.  Sure Live is great but my budget says not so.
 

Switched to Bitwig.

How hard have you looked?  There's a "See What's New" link right on Ableton's front page.

SmokeyJ628
How hard have you looked?  There's a "See What's New" link right on Ableton's front page.

Still is a little cryptic, but here is what I surmise:
 
New devices: Wavetable, Echo, Drum Buss, and Pedal.  Echo, Drum Buss, and Pedal will be available in Standard versions as audio effects, but Wavetable is an instrument and will be included in Suite or a separate purchase.
 
Capture: a pretty no-brainer; standard in all versions.  One thing that I wished Live could do is MIDI overdub, or "Sound on Sound" as Cakewalk puts it, and it's been done in Sonar and earlier MIDI software such as MOTU since the dawn of time.
 
Edit Multiple MIDI Clips: I hope this means that a grab-select-transpose-all becomes available.
 
Create and Arrange More Fluidly: Live's Arrangement View has always been the 2nd and runner-up view for Ableton's development and attention.  Glad to see that it will get some enhancements, because quite frankly, the Session View is saturated and already pretty damn powerful.
 
Workflow Refinments: Browser needs help.  This is good.  I hope they add a snap-to-open-folder-right-to-the-plugin when a search is performed, but I'm not getting my hopes up.  Note chasing, from what I understand, was something that was supposed to happen back in the Live 8 days.  Not really concerned about it though.  I/O Renaming, ala Cakewalk Sonar's "Friendly Names" will be a warm-welcome to the I/O numbers.  Mixing Improvements have already included workarounds to automate Utility instead of the faders for better control.  Sounds like EQ8 will go lower, instead of bottoming out at 35Hz, but who cares?  Oh wait, Hans Zimmer will appreciate that for his next Bladerunner sequel's soundtrack!   Groups within groups: great more levels to confuse me!  Refined look and feel improvements will hopefully allow better contrast and color themes, like a good, dark one.  But I already appreciate Live's ability to change colors and scale the GUI, so it can only get better.
 
Push: don't care.
 
New library of sound: don't care, but both Standard and Suite versions will probably get more sounds, with Suite getting the bulk majority.
 
Max for Live: ah, just noticed that Max for Live will come included in Suite, which it already is now. But it's better integrated?  Not sure how that could be, but without ever testing it for myself, then I have no idea.  There was never a demo available for just Max for Live.  You had to demo Live Suite, which will probably be the case even more.
 

I just noticed that I'm eligible for a 20% off upgrade to Live 9 Standard, with a free upgrade to Live 10 for $ USD $159.

anxiousmofo
Still excited to see Live 10.  That said, I'm going to wait until they (hopefully) fix their lousy plugin management in a point update.

 
I kind of don't mind their plugin management if you are referring to the custom VST folder(s).  I use shortcuts (in Windows) which references the real plugin folder(s).  It keeps things a bit cleaner, IMO.
 
Now, if you're referring to the lack of VST3 support, lack of 32-bit support, or the lack of the ability to organize Waves plugins (i.e. cracking them out of the WaveShell), then I'm with ya!
 
Like I mentioned in my other post, I just wish the Search in the Browser "goes to" the plugin and I don't have to click one more time to open the folder that contains said plugin so I can see and use said plugin.  The point of the search function is to jump right to it and that's it!  No excuses!  The Dewey Decimal system didn't just take me to the right aisle of books, it took me right to the book!

kitekrazy1
I think they should do away with the Suite and everything is considered an add on.  You basically are caught in the Suite upgrade chain just so you can use your previous libraries.

I agree, but Suite is good for people with nothing, though it is quite expensive.  The samples are pretty good compared to Sonar's included bits and one-shots, but alas they are just samples and it's all about how you use or manipulate them.  I went with Standard specifically and refuse to upgrade to Suite just so I can stay out of the Suite upgrade path, like you said.  The only thing I'm interested in that Suite contains is Max for Live, which can also be had ala carte.  Hopefully that remains that way.  But Max for Live for me is $159.  One could ask themselves why not just spend an extra $112 and get all the [AAS] instruments, Sampler (which would be really powerful to have), plus Max for Live.  Once you start blurring the line between what's already been bought for use between platforms, such as standalone AAS instruments (e.g. Chromaphone 2), the decision gets harder to make.  So far, I've remained in the Standard side, and for all practical purposes, it's good enough for me.