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My wording could have been better. Here is what I mean about this: I have been in the software business for 24 years now, and have noticed a few things. I like to call this “feature maturity”, or “functions saturation”. This applies to both hardware and software. I have an HP Photosmart ink printer, bought in 2000. It is still a reliable workhorse. Go figure.. a printer more than two years old in 1998 would have been replaced, immediately. My main computer is a powerful beast I built myself in 2010. I have Adobe CS6, the last one they released as perpetual, almost ten years I think. And to me it is so advanced, I will never discover all the things I can use it for. So to the point: I sincerely believe that it is not so much the hardware / software which is the limitation anymore, but more the artist her/himself. Some of us have come to the point when good is good enough. The stupefying availability of all kinds of multimedia software in 2021 will already allow you to create almost any imaginable and unimaginable artistry. Let's take Microsoft Office. What do you really miss in Office 2010, that will force you to subscribe to Office 365? Finally: Me thinks that the big software companies have problems with a steady income, because customers, due to the aforementioned conditions, may skip a version or three. The curve has been flattened. And the solution: Subscription. -Ingvar

Yes, the R23 version had stability problems. They improved it a lot in S24 and I have no problems with this version. I have worked too little with the R25 to judge its stability, but so far I have not seen any problems. For the full transition to the R25, I am waiting for the repair of the missing icons. Help from Maxon said they are working on a solution to this problem. If the missing icons appear, we will switch to the R25 in our studio.

This is by far, the best summary of the current sentiment here. Thanks @Macgyver

Choose to use an old layout and it will behave as it always has.

I don't understand this position, as all the old layouts are still available, and you can import your own customized layout as easily as ever. All that's different is the icons and background color. I know learning new icons can be off-putting as I resisted for a couple of years the last time they were changed, but in the end I finally came around and it wasn't difficult at all.

New version 1.44 available in the download section. Latest version is compatible with R16 up to R25. Added some additional options, see comments in download section.

Now to something completely different: Can anybody tell how R25 relates in terms of stability? Background info: I seldomly use R23 because it's crashing relatively often (several times a day on complex projects), compared to R21 (sometimes) or R18 (never ever).