I am ok with a price increase but I would hope for more capable software. Search. Trigger on data event.
You'd have to ask someone like Alan (who's actually using it) what the state of their new software is. My understanding is that it's still Beta and buggy. But you'll be happy to know that Search is promised. Well, Search has been promised for most of the last 6 years, but it's actually in the new Beta software.
OTOH, you can forget about triggering on Data Events, because that requires hardware comparators the devices lack.
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The software can start recording automatically when it finds a simple pattern you specify. You can trigger on digital edges and pulses as well as analog voltages and pulses."
If Data Event triggering is what you need, then this is not the product you're looking for. However, Saleae reduces the negative impact of that limitation by enabling acquisition of huge amounts of data. Then using their new Search capability, you can locate the Data Events you're interested in. With the benefit of having a lot of surrounding context. Also, being able to revise your Search conditions, and look for something else in the same capture. There are some definite advantages to that.
But if you're trying to capture some transient event that happens maybe once in an hour, it will be a crap shoot. Even with gigs of RAM, you can "only" capture minutes of trace.