It's not a dead horse, Drew, but rather the real world. In this real world there are situations that can't always be predicted, right, but I tend to go with the tried and proven in mission critical applications. I was reluctantly forced to upgrade this HW installation because of some people in a decision making position having heard of HW V via Facebook. They insisted that they wanted to be "up there" with the latest and "greatest" where as I went on record suggesting we wait until everything was totally tried and proven over a reasonable amount of time. Nothing has been changed since the beginning of Dec, 2019 on this organ. If there is a problem with this organ, esp from iLok which is yet to be found out, I won't have to face the music (or lack of) alone.
BTW, they had been using HW 4 for over 5 years with zero issues.
After this pandemic is over and we with go back to in person church services. it will be interesting to see how this organ has survived as it hasn't been turned on for all these weeks. While HW V has some useful features, for sure I don't discount the reliability record that has been the case with with HW 4. If someone wants to underwrite (guarantee with $$$) that HW V
with iLok won't have future unforeseen issues, I'm interested. (Their Rodgers had 10+ years of totally reliable service).
This isn't meant to be negative to HW V, but in my book, HW 4 was and still is one fantastic piece of very reliable software.
Rgds,,
Ed