In this day in age software developers are trying to implement something new when the old wasnt broken to begin with.

Ive been using cubase for quite a while now, and to tell you the truth the cracked version 5 works better than legit 6, i like the channel strip but not when the program hangs suddenly, but i never had that problem with 5, and yeah 6 & 7 may be better but stability has my vote everytime.