@5412db58 hm, all good points, thank you. 

It's mostly personal, but I do worry that not engaging with some of this tech more deeply puts me at a familiarity disadvantage, whereas being an enthusiastic early-adopter has served me well pretty much my entire life. 

But either I know the price of early adoption better now, or there are new prices in place for it, as far as data goes. So I go back and forth quite a bit.

Will have to think some more on what you said, thank you.