Feh. Another upgrade, yawn. They have to constantly have people on the upgrade path or they will go out of business, plain and simple. How many of those whizbang features will you actually use?
I can have the latest most expensive software running on the fastest computer and Mike Lavallee will beat the skin off of me with a $200 air brush.
No matter what you do it boils down to talent, "seat time" and how hard you can actually drive the tools of your craft.
If software were the answer we would all be daVincis.