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Maybe it's just a badly communicated idea?

They have had rather not striking features for the new releases (but compensated it somewhat later) and more and more people with perpetual licenses...

Interesting. That means that buying a perpetual license regularly makes no more sense - at the time of the new release, there are are a small number of new features. More are added over time, but ...

The tilt is so limited, I felt it was not really worth the name gimbal.
Manual tilt? Couldn't care less. The reason one gets a gimbal is the automation of all axis movements.