QA: Yes it's completely safe to buy current version as it is going to be updated with the revamped software.

Thank you very very much for such a detailed experience. It's super helpful and I will address it. I've learned that behind one person with certain problem there are number of people that will just abandon it without ever being vocal about it - so it's pretty much always worth to fix what at a fist glance might look like an individual experience. Sorry that you had to dig for answers.