Well, I started on the original Cakewalk MIDI Sequencer back in the 90s and I'm a WINDOWs guy and have no plans (or desire) to switch to MAC.
Last year Pro Tools was having lots of problems and I was looking for an alternate DAW - so I downloaded the SONAR demo and hacked around for several months.
I liked the sound of the finished projects that users on this forum were posting links to. I'm really just a home studio singer/songwriter type and it seemed SONAR was better for my current needs. I already had too many plug-ins and a UAD Apollo - so I just went with SONAR Pro.
Was also impressed that the CEO (Noel?) takes the time to respond to posts in the forum, and I think CAKEWALK is doing a pretty good job with the monthly update cycle.
(For the record, the latest Pro Tools Vanilla 12.8.2 is better and they've fixed many of the bugs.)
Danny V.