A Mechanic has many tools to fix the car, not just one spanner. The same with DAWS all are similar but all have different tools.
If you can afford them try them all. If not then stick with what you can afford.
All you need to make music is the talent to materialize your creative mind not thousand and thousands of dollars spent on fancy gear and plugins.
If you don't believe me watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR3o6-KXXGc

travismb
Discovered Cubase and now have a second love.  Cubase isn't going anywhere even if Sonar comes back.  I'll just use both as needed.

+1
 
Steinberg also has a new Notation software "Dorico".  I'm waiting to see you that integrates with Cubase and other DAWs 

Spent some quality time with S1 yesterday.  Sorted some things out.  It's back in the lead.

I actually bought Studio One 3 a year before Gibson pulled the plug on SONAR, mainly to learn something "new" (plus I got it half off ). I also bought Digital Performer right after the plug was pulled on SONAR (again, half off sale) and I've learned those two DAWs fairly well. While Studio One seems the closest thing to SONAR as far as ease of use, I still find myself going back to SONAR when I have clients in the studio, mainly because of the comfort level I have in SONAR. Beside, they really don't care which DAW I use as long as we get the results they're looking for.

Bought Studio One Pro when Gibson dropped Cake. I had Reaper forever but never got on with it (was overwhelmed by it at the time). Haven't used SONAR since the announcement. Spent a lot of time with Studio One to be sure but lately I have been spending more time with Reaper and generally liking it. From my point of view, Studio One is missing too much or requires work arounds, while Reaper is way too loaded to be easily friendly. I see why people like them both, as I do too. But both are far from perfect, as is also true for SONAR.
But - my heart is still with SONAR. I am going to keep plugging away with Reaper (and maybe try Studio One again for some things) and wait to see what Bandlab comes out with. If it looks promising, I will definitely go back/move on(?) 
 

Had S1 since V2, and have always been amazed how quickly you can get a track together, but for me, the problems start when a project gets big and complex. I've lost count of the number of times I've changed the wrong automation lanes, or added plugins to the wrong channel, simply due to the lack of clarity in the UI. The metering is superb though. Installed and uninstalled Reaper for the fourth time - it's the only DAW that I've not managed to do anything in without recourse to the manual, and it just gets frustrating. Those menus need sorting into something more manageable too. I've got FL Studio installed, but it's just too different, and also have the Demo of Cubase - I was mightily impressed with it, and was about to break out the wallet, until a number of crashes has put me off. After all that, I'm drifting back to Sonar, it does some thing really well, and nothing really badly. It's now rock solid (for me anyway) and the CPU multicore handling is unmatched.

red_dwarf
Installed and uninstalled Reaper for the fourth time - it's the only DAW that I've not managed to do anything in without recourse to the manual, and it just gets frustrating. Those menus need sorting into something more manageable too. 

You can do exactly that in Reaper. You can configure the menus to be as simple or as detailed as you like. In fact I don't think there's a single part of the program that isn't configurable to your liking.