yes I partially agree with you. I am very aware of what most of the tools in the market can do and their prices, I have quite a few of them and many original one as well. the problem that I have with autel's tools is its reliability, what does work on one vehicle does not work on the next one, most functions have either been removed or simply does not work. I have had so many issues it will take me days to list them. issues that were resolved at some time on previous updates but keeps reappearing as though they are doing it on purpose to force us to keep paying for more updates to get what we once had, at least is how I feel about it. I have a friend that owns a maxidas from 2013 or 2014, he never updated it or anything and this little thing outperformed my 908p badly, he only paid like 1200 dollars. no bimmer and benz coding but just about everything else had twice the functions mine has and very reliable, I tested it on many vehicles and it performed very well, so well in fact I wanted to trade mine for his. I am not a bmw or benz tech, in fact I am not even interested in working on this over engineered and sensitive money pit vehicles the reason I mentioned on another post to break down the updates by regions or makes so that people like me not interested in having this vehicles can pay less for updates. everybody's experience and point of view is different, I get that some loves it and some hates it, I simply dislike it at the moment.