When our vendor recently released a major upgrade to the PCB software, we discovered to our horror that all of the libraries were now obsolete. Now we have the great joy of maintaining both old and new versions of the software. One friend addresses these sorts of problems by never upgrading. When the path becomes too rocky he idles, using the old but presumably reliable software for years after the vendor declares it obsolete. I worry that getting stuck in such a tool time warp will backfire.
Support becomes non-existent.
Using the latest and greatest goodies does, I feel, keep us more productive. I wish I knew. A close friend called last month. He had just accidentally deleted 1.5 GB of critical information from his hard disk, not realizing that he was working on a network drive, not a personal drive. Everything was on tape but the Conner tape drive was in for repair.