I would rather pay a bit and have innovative functionality worth reckoning with rather than have a half-arsed, here-and-there update of scrap leftovers thrown out for free.
It seems to me the content of these version upgrades from Steinberg in general needs to be thought through better. For instance, simply implementing the newest generic Steinberg plugins from Cubase into say the newest Wavelab is transparently redundant and makes for a weak feature list.