You are right. With affordable grading tools became available, clients do not want to pay extra for 2K suites any more, and grading rates are not as high as it used to be even with high end tools. As a matter of fact, 2K system does not even attracts clients these days. It is just a thing of a past. Nobody really considered buying a brand new 2K for last 4~5years, and DaVinci stopped making it. In my case, getting the jobs done in time is my priority. I grade about 200 episodes of 60 min drama series a year, and I have less than 15 hours between final edited version and national broadcasting, most of the time.(sometimes I get to watch a show on TV I finished grading 2 hours before..) I have an up-to-date Color and a 10 years old 2K to choose from for such jobs, and I am just fortunate to have 2K in my suite.
But new Resolve will make clients little happier..