I don’t mind learning new software, although I have better things to do with my time, honestly, and it’s a bit of a hassle. In fact, there’s stuff I need to put off or not do if I must re-learn an application. Always pissed me off that they changed the Compressor interface with every iteration, or DVD SP, for that matter.
Anyway, I can deal with that.
If FCP-X will not allow for opening old FCP projects down the road, though, that’s quite serious. I have years worth of old material that I need to go back to on a regular basis.
I have been Apple’s biggest loyalist, apologist and evangelist for a long, long time, but I will move on faster than a thunderbolt if they can’t fix this. For about it being insensitive to real world needs and arrogant, in general. It’s just plain stupid.