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Latest I have is Miku NT and piapro studio. Still getting used to piapro but I don't think I'll take the leap unless piapro comes out with Miku AI. Part of me wants to augment Newtype Miku with AI, another part wants me to get good at making vocals using traditional concatenative interfces. I think the biggest limitation I set myself is brand loyalty with cfm and piapro and not nessesarly and aprehension with AI (although another one is lazyness, don't want to plug in .vsqx and fight with the AI changing parameters I rather leave untouched.).
You're not alone, I'm still using the old voice banks and kind of self conious about using stuff people may consider outdated nowadays. I kind of want to make good on the software I have though and not chase after the new shiny fad.

I kind of want to see someone use fancy AI voice banks that are trendy and hard-autotune them to make them sound more like older vocaloid versions, just to mess with people.

I definitely do like some things about AI voice banks, but let's not lose sight of the fact that pretty much any vocal synth is a rounding error compared to Miku's popularity, which means the concatenative synthesis sound really isn't going out of style. The majority of listeners aren't huge synth nerds who know how the software works; they're just there for singing robots. There's definitely room for both in the foreseeable future.

I still use old banks because they keep their specific flavour (though i do agree AI tuning helps a lot but at the same time i feel like i won't make any progress on tuning if i keep doing so) and well some of my faves don't have any update nor planned ones

Moreover it helps you getting creative just like how I loooove to mess with the parameters i've done for TONIO and other V2 'loids (even the V3 though between tiny editor restrictions and the way parameters work in V2 VS V3 and later engine's generations kinda limit it too) and my guilty pleasure is to switch the few tones (trying to... tone it down) and then try to do my best on the tuning part

I never heard peoples says "You should use B vb, A is obsolete, or It would sound much better in B vb, A vb is sound bad" even once. Although if peoples say something like that, simply just ignore it. I know people who use PC that have specs similar to old beat-up toaster, so you're good!

In my opinion, no one cares about what we are using to make music, as long as we can get the good results and they like it. Seriously, I never once found people who say "it sound like you're using wa*es plugins, you should use UAD stuffs".