To my knowledge, Staff View wasn't mentioned in the promos, and there were no comments from Cakewalk in threads about it. If this has been improved, I will upgrade. Thanks.

No major changes unfortunately. However, there is one new addition to the Staff View I was pleasantly surprised to see and that is support for horizontal mouse wheel scrolling. That was driving me nuts in X1. I know it's a little thing but it really helps the workflow. 

Thank you sir.

@Hansenhaus

Nice to hear that a small bone was thrown our way - or maybe it was an accident and will soon be disabled in an upcoming patch (I kid, I kid).
@rio - nice new avatar

I think it may be too early to ask about the SV.  The boys and girls are just unwrapping their new toy.  

I am as curious as you, but the only changes I could imagine would be cosmetic (like the note value icons which Benstat had in Sonar Plus) or hopefully some HUD / Smart Tool improvements to help with work flow.

I can't imagine there would be any change in what or how notation is displayed in the SV.  I think that is were the dead or un-maintainable language behind the SV lives - which I believe is making it impossible for the Bakers to make any real changes.  (but you knew that already).

One thing which is kind of nice from http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2646255

j = scrub
d = global draw tool
e = global erase tool
s = global select tool

Come to think of it, there were icons for next and previous notes

If these were also made available as icons in SV and/or in the HUD, it would at least help with work flow.