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I now have so much stuff in my IQ base that it makes me nervous to never know whether my DB will be fully usable or not the next day (without having to use super time consuming workarounds). (Yes, most urgent bugs are fixed rapidly but this is not always the case.)

 

If every time I encountered important bugs I could've reversed to the previous fully working version, it wouldn't have been a problem... But, in all fairness, it's been impossible for the last few (many) months : previous versions often had other serious bugs I was not ready to face once more (it was/is often like choosing between loosing my left hand, my right hand, an eye or my a few toes)... So I continuously upgraded, and continuously faced new bugs. The result was/is an real noticeable (to put it mildly) decrease in productivity. Yes, I know that this is part of the beta game -- IQ is beta and so it's buggy, etc. But... I've been beta testing for more than 2 years, and I now feel that I could maybe use a version with all "current" features (not any new ones) fully usable -- I don't mind cosmetic bugs and other small ones, and missing features here and there... As long as I'm not spending hours a week trying to work around these.

Yes... as I said, I know bugs are a normal aspect of software development. But I find that users (especially long time users who probably invested 100s of hours in debugging) should now be able choose whether they want to take further risks or get some work done for a while.