The market will always do what it HAS to to survive. If the economy brought a final cessation of the madness we have all gone through, spending like crazy and beyond our means, upgrading for every specious reason, constantly clamoring for the new rather than appreciating what we had, IMO that wouldn't be a BAD thing.

We are all fairly convinced that the manufacturers COULD innovate at a faster pace, features only appear on an arranger line LONG after we all see them as obvious software only extensions of what they just released...

If we refused to buy a new arranger until those obvious features get added, and skip the one or two generations where they are just releasing a 'make time' product, I guarantee, rather than go out of business, they WOULD make sure that we REALLY want whatever new product they come out with.

You keep forgetting your power in a market driven economy. You ARE the market. YOU drive sales, not the manufacturers. When demand goes down, manufacturers scramble to find and fulfill that demand, to try to reclaim their market share. If you stop buying rotten tomatoes and say 'I'm not buying them because they are rotten' the farmer finds a way to get them to you fresh...

Consumer revolts have happened in the past, and can happen again if you want to. If you are tired of drip fed incremental updates, it is entirely in YOUR hands to do something about it. Of course, you've got to be prepared to do without tomatoes for a while while the farmer figures out how to get them to the market faster, but you're already stocked up pretty well...