Quote: "you can apy for a subscription where they give you upgrades to the next version free, well not free the subscription costs a few grand per year"
Recently that would've been worth it given the subscription is $1,200 per year and they've been releasing one per year. So rather than $3,200 you can get it quite a bit cheaper.
This said, given that I work with these programs professionally and find it very hard to constantly keep up with the latest releases, it is far beyond suspicious that even some let alone any users here would be able to afford every version.
Sorry but 4/5/6/7 your looking at $15,000 over the last 5years.. it might not seem like much but for a hobby; and I'd have to say someone is full of crap. Particularly if someone was to say they bought it in Europe where the cost of such programs is extorionally high with no Student verion program.
Van, they took it out of V5 (why is beyond me) . but if you press 'Y' you can bring up the Quick Tab System
It's particularly useful for editing, atleast that's what I find.