I can tell you, in the realm of Autocad I'm definately one of the 'high enders' and I hear these arguments all the time. What low enders don't realize when they claim the high end will be phased out is that by the time they are catching up to the stuff high enders have been doing for a while, the high enders are already several steops ahead and on to different newer thigns, and are quite happy to hand over the tedious part of the work to the upcoming people.

Same thing with advice I often get from small minded people, not to teach people 'everything I know'. I never listen to that one either. By the time I'm ready to actually teach someone something (in a meaningful manner), it means I know it like the back of my hand, and I'm not worried that I'll be passed up. By that time, I'm usually experimenting and using a whole new bag of tricks...  And if someone is capable of surpassing me, power to them, but usually, that doesn't happen in massive numbers. It's onsies and twosies. I'm not the only one in possesion of knowledge and information. Plus, when someone figures out something new that I haven't figured out, then I can learn from them... Especially if they remember me being nice and helping them in the past.

There is a reason 'high-enders' are at the high end, and it has less to do with the software then it has to do with people.

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