I still use Victoria 4 (and Michael 4) all the time. Simple reason: there is a ton of content for these and I am but an amateur. There was a brief moment where Genesis attracted my attention, but when that was swiftly followed up by new, and then newer still, models I was quite convinced that I wasn't interested in models that would perhaps see only a year or so of developer attention and would end up with half a dozen outfits which I would perhaps be interested in.

I appreciate that some of the newer models are objectively better in some respects, and would, if rendered without too many adjustments, give amateurs like me a better result than old Victoria would - but I remind myself that, like with photography, the limiting factor is far more often the user than the tools.