I think if I was buying Vue today I would look seriously at adding the built in upgrade option rather than paying the additional cost for future upgrades as they become available.  In the past I have purchased the Esprit version and just added the packages I needed in an attempt to save money.  It was a false economy as the next upgrade along I had to purchase all the modules all over again.   

I like Vue, or at least the earlier versions I have used, but I really cannot justify spending that much on a hobby particularly as many of my scenes are indoors and really needs different software, so further cost.  Due to this I have not upgraded my version of Vue in a longtime and work almost exclusively with Poser and sometimes Reality 3.

 

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.