Quote - Probably much the same, because these features come with greatly increased render time - worth it to me, but I bet not to a lot of the "usual suspects".  There are already a few different ways to avoid nose glow but it's still there in 3/4 of gallery pics.

I agree, in fact, I know I wont be waiting +2hours of rendertime using GI on each one of my renders, specially since I love comic-style compositions that require A LOT of renders for a page. But I do belive there will be an overal upgrade in the gallery.
Pretty amazing to have that power when you do want to get this kind of quality though.

One thing sells me right away, the improved content library bill is working on, for ME its the most important feature. Search engine, oh yeah upgrade time for me.

I know this could be irrelevant given the interface changes but, one thing that always bugged me was not being able to rename/move items, and even more, I really really wanted a right click feature on the library for things like "open with, open location, properties, etc". And python could never solve that problem either since there was no real connection to the library.

Anyway, I just read the whole thread from post 1 in one sit, taking a break now =P