That reasoning I like and can appreciate.With version payments, you can even keep the version in use and stick with the current system. Then later, pay again in the future when you also update all the hardware, the system and the programs used. Just as if you stop using the program for a while, you can read and access the data with the latest paid version, and you just cannot update to subsequent ones.
It appears that, so far, the overall consensus is "paid for Major version updates".
I will keep this survey going until Conor deems it no longer useful.
Cheers all.