Great feedback all, thanks. Honestly, I think Blinkbid is a fantastic software, and gets better all the time, so I'm sure I'll stick around.... we'll see.
As someone who has been buying software for years, (as most you seem to be as well), it's hard getting one's head around yearly subscriptions. I just decided to finally jump into Photoshop's plan.
Also, there is the fact that several of my "other" favorite software I use even more -- for emails newsletter, Text inserter (use that one every day), and those are just $40 for three years, and $5 for one time fee. In a way we are spoiled with many great software's being inexpensive, which we are used to for a long time now. And as great at BB is, it's not like PS, which you could not do on your own, and yes, I do notice producers just use Excel.....