i know some ppl hate to hear it but as a long time vocaloid user im still kinda pissed about the release of v5, v6, and now this apparent new one. v5 was like.... a waste of time honestly. hardly used, hardly any releases, didnt bring anything groundbreaking to the table. v6 took a long time to release after all that time of v5 sitting around with barely anything, so it was late to the party on AI banks and even when it did release many were not impressed by it compared to others (myself included.
with v5 and 6, even putting beside my subjective opinions on the voices or quality, felt like such a cheat in terms of my money. i bought v5 for its still admittedly high price after v4 only for it to kinda be a waste with how little support and use it had from yamaha. literally had no use for it unless i really wanted some of those new features which wasnt enough to make me want to open it over v4 for a simple cover.
v6 releases and its basically the same but with AI and some new features-- and im supposed to want that after v5 got next to nothing? that i paid $100+ for before and should do again? why did i get v5 then? and trust that v6 actually gets some decent support and releases? which i am unsure will even happen now that they have jumped on this new beta stuff, its hard to know if itll be integrated into v5 or its own thing. my trust is totally lost at this point, especially when i am not personally pleased with the quality of what they have released.
I agree with all your points, by the way, despite me being excited for β-STUDIO
EDIT:
Originally typed this in the bathroom, and didn't use my usual dashes and proper nouns, so I fixed it
With additional grammatical corrections