Sadly in our ever evolving computer world, we become thrilled to new enhancements that sometimes fire up our creative juices, so the joy of creating music becomes thrilling. I have to admit I sailed from home studio six then entered Sonar series, up to X3d.
Along the way there are always development bugs, simply unavoidable, I noticed that with 8 series, got kinda cluttered, sure it had enhancements, but I created a lot of good tunes with 4, stayed with it for quite awhile.
The bottom line is the music retail business is losing big $ ...some article that was published by a prominent business magazine quoted some large losses of some big players competing in this industry, there is more to come.
Software has eluded me over the years, at one time during the Twelve Tone days new versions were churning up the community with excitement, I was kinda part of that, not in a big way, sometimes things got a little bumpy.
On an old Pink Floyd film produced (LIVE at Pompeii) one of the band members quoted "you gotta have it in your head in the first place to get it out!" He was referring to the fact that even back in the 70's the technological marvels of that age, still required creativity of us to make music.
Look at us now, the DAW really has evolved as a wonder music tool, we can manipulate errors to fix things, now don't kid yourself, the power of computer music sometimes wants to take control, such as mixing algorithms, third party services.
My vision of DAW isn't so much on the computer doing all those things, rather more of more realistic three dimensional modeling of mixers and plug ins, not the flat two dimensional images found on every current DAW platform.
So my option, stay with what I have, its stable, see what comes further down the road.