Yes I paid $99 Can from a local music store. I saw no benifit in buying the full version for me.
And because Wave Lab shares Plug ins you can use most everything you have on hand.
As I said it's the best workflow for me because those tools are only one mouse click and your done, Really important if you go through a live recording , like from my Tascam DR 40, and want to kill a bunch of peaks before you apply limiting. Open Gain tool set value Highlight, hit the gain tool, highlight, hit the gain tool. on and on.
In all the others I've tried this would require. highlight, menu, sub menu open tool, reset the value now hit. Sure some have keyboard shortcuts but your always going to have to re set the value.