My frank and personal view is that so long as upgrading figures or models is a commercial business, there will be built in obsolescence. There may not be any so-called longevity in any particular line of figures. As for the software, well, the impact of divergence in supported figures has been very clear, with many software users being forced to make a choice of figures, or jump through many hoops to import content notoriginally created for that software.

Eternal Hobbyist