I have used Finele for more than 30 years, and have HATED it for all of those years. It was always a grand conglomeration of kludges. About 20% of the time I was able to get it to do what I wanted. The rest of the time was an endless struggle. Most recently, I tried to import a midi file into it and then edit it, Though the input file was in 3/4 time, I was never able to get Finale to recognize that ti was not in 4/4 time and to adjust the measures accordingly. It was always almost impossible to get Finale to do what one wanted it do do. It was obvious from the menu structure, that the whole program was a kludge of independent and non-interoperative features whose interactions had multiple bugs. I am so SO sorry that I stuck with it for all this time, and that I wasted so much time trying to get it to do what I wanted. Their kissof message admits as much. They cannot any longer maintain, or even understand, their vast spaghetti code. No doubt foolishly, and seemingly without any alternative, I have bought their recommended successor. God knows when I will ever have time to learn that new system. If I were a music professional, I would be forced to learn. As a 70-year-old amateur, frequent singing performer, and clarinet player, I don’t know if I will ever get around to it.
Goodby, Finale. You are going to a well-diserved death.