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What kind of LabVIEW enthusiasts would we be if we didn't upgrade to the latest and greatest!

When I read the title of the thread, I wondered if the "biggest scam" was the global warming hypothesis or the elevation of Phil Jones's misconduct to "-gate" levels. I'm still wondering.

Version changes concern me. They mean a lot of work for me revalidating my 1800+ vis. That's the main reason I went from 7.1.1 to 8.6.1 and bypassed all the other versions. I figured by the time 8.6.1 came out, all the bugs were out of the version 8 software. So NI's new "Major Version Release Every Year" paradigm really concerns me. When they release software with a new major number that means to me they have made major revisions/additions/changes. Otherwise, why make it look like a different product? I don't need a lot of fancy new features every single year; I need to know the code I already have is going to work and not be broken when I upgrade. Even worse, I don't want something to still work, but work *differently* from the way it did before (this one bit me in 8.6.1 -- so much for waiting). I would much rather see LV2009 SP2 be released next August, not LV2010. And if LV2010 will be, in essence, just more bug fixes for LV2009, then NI shouldn't change the version number. I would actually feel comfortable upgrading then.