Is it worth changing to an XG version?

I used to worry about UTM being phased out in favor of XG. We are end users, just use the product that best fits your needs and let sophos worry about their offerings. If XG matures to a reasonably good product, I am sure there sales will reflect that otherwise there are a wide range of vendors offering similar products. If you are a home user, then being able to use XG or UTM free of charge is a no brainer. I don't even want to hear the complaints from home users. If you think there is a better alternative, by all means move on. I just extended my 100 IP home license that I got in 2007 for beta testing for another 3 years. Sophos was glad to extend that for me no questions asked instead of telling me to move to the auto generated 50IP license.

These are little things and I am one of sophos' harshest critics but to be honest, how many other organizations let you constantly bash them like this openly on their forums. Go read pfsense forums and read the feedback from the devs/mods. They tell you to take a hike at every step. Generally paid vendors are courteous in emails and I have had good experience with most vendors. But that support is paid for by the end user. This is an open forum where sophos employees like Michael Dunn are taking the time out of their busy schedule to answer questions. However the bashing never stops. I am not trying to criticize or stopping anyone from expressing their opinion. All I am saying is that please criticize all you want but please be mindful of the fact that sophos is allowing you to express your opinion on a forum owned by them without any censorship or consequences to your speech. It doesn't hurt to say thank you once in a while. 

The capabilities of XG have been discussed extensively. While there is a lot of good things happening at sophos, some things don't change. Here is the wishlist from v16 beta... you guys can judge for yourself how many things have been improved since last year https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/sophos-xg-beta-programs/v16beta/f/sfos-v16-beta-feedback/78908/v16-what-is-still-missing 

As far as URL categorization, Michael Dunn already gave his views in this thread https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/f/firewall-and-policies/80869/youtube-and-ads---sometimes-they-are-not-blocked/326999#326999 and I will give XG a chance with sxl categorization. However DouglasFoster makes some excellent points about the categorization database and the areas that sophos needs definite improvement.

As far as is it worth changing to XG, here is a long thread with feedback from AlanT on the future and the reason things are the way they are https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/f/general-discussion/90762/time-to-move-on/329963#329963 

Thanks Billybob, Very well put

Thanks Billybob, Very well put