Hugh, I think you have this all exactly right. As a Windows-only user, I remember waiting years for WinScriv, and I am extremely grateful for it! Almost none of the other wonderful-sounding Mac tools lauded by folks on this forum have even *considered* porting to Windows. So, again, I am extremely grateful to the L&L team. For this alone they should be cut a *lot* of slack by Win users. I have total respect, too, for the fact that they have put their loyal Mac user base first even as they have rolled out the Win version. And I am incredibly excited for the coming v3 for Windows!

Cheers,
David

Hugh wrote:

I think it's true to say that most of the reasonably well-known
author-users of Scrivener on the Mac came to it and first successfully
used it for (published) books when it was significantly less capable
than Scrivener for Windows is now.

The problem for Scrivener's Windows development is that it started at
least five years after Keith Blount had started work on the Mac version,
and by and large despite considerable efforts by the (two-man) Windows
team, the Mac version remains more advanced.

Now, I believe the circumstances have changed. Keith has written several
times that Scrivener for Windows is skipping its Version 2 and is aiming
for a Version 3 launch which will have "feature-parity" with Scrivener
for the Mac at some point during 2018.