Brian,
Wow I really ID w your post. Im only an educational and event videographer working in Manhattan for NYU.
Last Sept I made the switch from FCPv7.02 to PPr CC14. I m running Mountain Lion at work and Mavericks at hm both on Mac Pro towers w new graphics boards of course, enough RAM to do most live efx.
I m considering going back to FCPX for my home freelance work but mainly b/c I m not seeing the support from Adobe I thought I would get.
The interface in PPr seems wonky the tracks expand way too much out of control, and there are more bugs in my software than a bad mattress.
But on the good side the Media Encoder is first rate and beats out the last ver of Compressor I used.
thanks for your post, i dont feel so alone now:)
Lou